Intersecting travelogues: Wandering through practices and archaeologies of space, place and image.
(2017)
author(s): Paul Landon
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
This exposition presents the moving image elements of the doctoral thesis Intersecting travelogues: Wandering through practices and archaeologies of space, place and image.
The text of the thesis is built around an artistic practice that explores architectural and urban space, an exploration that is translated into time based images installed within and responding to interior architectural exhibition spaces. The space of the city and its architectures are scrutinised through their seemingly insignificant details: abandoned or underused buildings, older model cars, deserted streets, details that resonate as markers of changing and forgetting.
The work reconsiders recent concepts of media history and archaeology and relates them to specific questions raised by contemporary artistic practice: to the architectures and spaces of audio-visual presentation, to an archaeology of the city, to the mobile spectator of minimal art and installation practices as it engages with the redeployment of urban space through projection technologies, text and image. It promotes the activities of a corporeal, wandering subject that engages with the spaces of media as sites of forgetting and recall.
The text is structured as a collection of wanderings that are organised into six chapters each presenting experiences of different places visited and the ensuing reflections that these visits spawned. To wander, in the ways in which it is presented in this work, engages with a fragmentary process of seeking out and coming across sites and subjects of enquiry. To paraphrase Walter Benjamin, urban wandering entails the use of haptic perception and awareness of the city’s intrinsic details in order to lose oneself in it. Wandering informs and structures the text in terms of instances of arriving in unknown and distant locations as well as of getting lost in a familiar city.
The Tunnel Vision
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): The Exploding Breakfast Society
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A collection of clues, remains and assorted leftovers, surreptitiously gathered from the innermost recesses of the subterranean wilderness and carefully arranged to form an alluring tale of profound and unsettling beauty:
A journey to the great within, and back again. A baptism of soil. A descent into salvation.
To dig is to pray.
Documenter une ville jamais visitée / Filming an unvisited city
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Paul Landon
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The growing practice of the artist in residence has been put into question with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing travel restrictions. The pandemic has also seen the development of the virtual visit as a new possibility for travelling, for viewing art, for visiting architecture for wandering unknown places. This project is an attempt at visiting an unknown city and producing artworks, in the form of animated films, based on that visit. The short films are based on images of modern architecture, images of buildings that are derivative of the International style, a style that is ostensibly recognized globally. Taken out of their local context, these animated structures hover in an indeterminate space.
A collection of clues, remains and assorted leftovers, surreptitiously gathered from the innermost recesses of the subterranean wilderness and carefully arranged to form an alluring tale of profound and unsettling beauty: A journey to the great within, and back again. A baptism of soil. A descent into salvation. To dig is to pray.open exposition comments (0)
The growing practice of the artist in residence has been put into question with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing travel restrictions. The pandemic has also seen the development of the virtual visit as a new possibility for travelling, for viewing art, for visiting architecture for wandering unknown places. This project is an attempt at visiting an unknown city and producing artworks, in the form of animated films, based on that visit. The short films are based on images of modern architecture, images of buildings that are derivative of the International style, a style that is ostensibly recognized globally. Taken out of their local context, these animated structures hover in an indeterminate space.open exposition comments (0)