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My proposition is an auction house that rewires the media apparatus that propagates the
fandom and fetishization of the Charles Manson family. Its architecture extrapolates from the spatial logic of Sharon Tate’s murder to construct new forms of voyeurism around the artifacts of the murder.
Located on the previous land of Sharon Tate’s house, the building has a flexible interior that allows for transitions from an exhibition to a play and an auction. Before the auction,
there is an exhibition displaying all the artifacts from the murder scene on sale. These spaces play with the psychological desire to imagine oneself from the standpoint of placing objects in the sequence of how the actual murder happened. To captivate the audience’s attention towards the artifacts, a play that takes place around situates the artifacts within the murder scene. When the play is over, a podium for the auctioneer and the stenographer rises from below the floor and the auction takes place. The auction house completes the fetishization of the objects by bringing the audience to participate in the process of buying the objects.