Fieldworks: Situated Practice in Art and Architecture
This exhibition showcases site-based and location inspired art and design responses to the built environment.
It takes as its premise that architecture needs to begin with ‘being there’ in relation to the complex histories and spatial dynamics of the places it inhabits.
Fieldworks affirms practices of observation and engagement in order to develop critical and responsive interventions in chosen sites and with associated participants.
The works include:
- sound walks and deep mapping of Mare Street in the East London Borough of Hackney that engages with the histories of migration and gentrification
- a sound installation made through exchanging field recordings between Johannesburg, South Africa and London
- an archive table display of artists’ book works that explores writing ‘in common’ and shared guided rambles through common lands in UK and Australia
- a listening device used to amplify the experience of sound in urban spaces
- an audio sound works on vinyl records made from tree-ring patterns of felled tree stumps in the city.
The collaborative projects are presented by the current cohort with University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and The University of Melbourne, Australia, and selected work by graduates of the Situated Practice MA and current students of Architecture and Interdisciplinary Studies BA at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
