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A corridor is a place where we are in movement. We are moving with the goal of reaching a destination. That destination is mostly a room. We enter a room to perform a certain activity. The activity that we perform is often closely related to one or two objects: the bed in the bedroom, the dinner table and the chairs in the dining room, and the sofa in the living room. We move into the corridor to stay in the room and execute an activity in that room. Is the corridor really only a space to move? The bigger the corridor, the more it starts to look like a room. The bigger a corridor, the more seemingly lost objects wind up in the corridor. We would argue that the function of a corridor is ambiguous. In its most rigid condition, it is an empty linear space with doors or destinations. What if the corridor becomes a destination in itself? What if we blur the room with the corridor, the destination with its journey? With the videos, we try to express the very oddity of the banal activities we link to the corridor: walking, running, looking out the window, running into somebody, ringing the doorbell or knocking on the door. We searched for a cheap easy material with which we could clad a corridor in order to strip it from its specificity. Consequently, we ended up with A4 papers. A corridor that is cladded with A4 paper has the feature of a grid. That grid was made use of for Tetris-like figures that could appear with stop motion. The Tetris-like figures were used as emphases on certain aspects of the movements, or as doors and windows. Why did we ever make the distinction between the room and the corridor? A room is a destination with an assigned purpose, and a corridor is a journey with no assigned purpose other than getting to a space with an assigned purpose. By imposing objects associated with rooms into a corridor, we try to challenge the emptiness and movement associated with a corridor. The manifesto is an extension to the structure. Phrases are written by/on/next to the objects. Next to the bed is written: ‘This is a bedroom.’ The collection of all these phrases that want to define or appropriate the corridor according to the object conflict with each other. These appropriating phrases try to emphasize the idea of the mix of the corridor with the rooms even more.