Superstudio's Ceremonia (1973) explores how architecture might dissolve into symbolic acts and social scripts rather than built forms. The film shows figures arranged in grids, circles, and processions across abstract terrains, suggesting that the structures that organize human life are not walls or monuments but the rituals and repetitions we enact together.
By framing ordinary behaviors—walking, gathering, exchanging—as ceremonial, Superstudio critiques the modernist obsession with function and utility. Ceremonia instead foregrounds the theatricality of life itself, presenting society as choreography sustained by invisible codes rather than by concrete structures.
From its ritualized processions to its dreamlike montages, Ceremonia extends Superstudio’s radical refusal of architecture-as-object, insisting that design’s true material is the collective imagination.
See also: Supersurface and Continuous Monument
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