T h e F i v e S p a t i a l i t i e s
The strategies outlined in this exposition serve as a conceptual framework, delineating five spatial groupings within which alternative pedagogies operate. Five spatialities were identified, corresponding to the D-Space the disruptive, F-Space a fivefold multiple-use location, the L-Space the liminal and leftover or 'meanwhile' space, the N-Space the normative and institutional, and finally the V-Space the online and digital.
Chapter 2 of the exegesis elucidates the process of defining, locating, and experiencing these spaces. It explores temporal dimensions, including nomadic spaces, which hold the potential to evolve networks. For this expanded spatial perspective on alternative art schools, please see Chapter 2 of the PDF below.
Title: Alternative to What? Exploring Alternative Art Schools Through Spatiality, Participation and Performative Tools
Elle Reynolds
You can find the exegesis on
the Nottingham Trent University Repository
Reading from
Part 1b
Nothing
[And Yet]
A historical narration
Performers: Protagonist and Reader
Siting here
Sitting still and ever ready
Seep
Seep ssseepings into the fabric of
The seated figure, motionless absorbing the space
Nothing
A vignette around an art school
Nothing ever happens here
Decommissioned
This could have been the space for an art school,
Here
Dismantled, stacked, sorted, labelled
Re – moved
To the shipping container
To the blue container
A A aaaa
A drawing in ink, a line here and there
Dripping, stencilled, smudged,
Territories denoted
The black spot of braziers
The blue black inkyness
A drawing in ink, a line here and there
Etched, sprayed, splayed,
Scrapped, mapped
AA arggg
Inky linear mass
A line and then
On
One
Done
On
One
Oooo
Mmmmm
\
The sink
Debris
Of bristles and acrylic, oil stains and umbra
And Yet
Nothing
Floating
Air vents
Material pressure
Without air
Air less
Airless space
Scraping
I turn these abandoned rooms into stage sets
Building monotone forms in the chromatic voids
Dragging my structures through doorways
Texting the walls
Crossing the floors
And yet
Covering the stains
Undoing, undone
Inserting myself
Inserting information panels
No one comes here
Just a staging set
A stage
A set
Re-placed
Re-re place
Black void
Then footsteps
Moving through
Moving through
Doorways
Closing
And yet
I enter the blue shipping container
Gone
G L O S S A R Y
/speɪʃɪˈælɪtɪ/Spatiality
Spatiality refers to the characteristics of being spatial; of spatial identity, formation, and stewardship of physical and social space and how this shapes the art educational environment.
Nothing
[and yet]
How is space unmade?
Nothing is a mapping of an art school. An art school is in the process of being decommissioned to make way for a business school. During the Summer of 2017, I spent one week in this physical space after the art school had been removed and the building was awaiting refurbishment. I staged environments, building monoliths as platforms and props, animating this space in transition. The art school had distinctive spatial infrastructural dispositions, the screenprint area is shown through the dark rooms, the cyanotype exposure room, wash area, drying rack, and the ventilation tubes, featured within the vignette. The remnants of these dispositions are explored through theatrical repurposing, which is also emphasised through the voicing. My spatial explorations enabled me to experiment with choreographed performances in those settings and build this cartography of my bodily interventions.
Moving image vignette, 06:24.
The Fivefold Space: Venice
Research Assistant with No Telos, September 2017.
To capture: Duration, Location, Space, Collective Energies and Interactions.
Activation: 2 Guides (leading), 8 Walkers (participating), 1 (research assistant/documenter)
The fivefold Venice space is a multiple ontological realm that tested my mapping process while compiling a commentary and capturing the contained state of the collaborative group No Telos. It is based within the theatre of Venice, a space bounded by water, surrounded by contained groups of tourists, within the space of the Venetians.
This documentary (of choreographed mapping) work sits in two parts :
1. through sound
2. through the visual
Both works build a construct of the space through 'points of position', applying the Venetian rose-coloured tape to the ground as a visual mapping of the final locations of the eight walkers. I note the terrain, location and experience of both guides and the walkers.
I have a notebook of thoughts on this project, and much is unfinished.
The Fivefold Space: Concourse Gallery
The fivefold corridic space at the Byam Shaw School of Art, Archway London. The Concourse Gallery represents a multifaceted corridor, bridging the gap between two distinct points: an entry point and an exit. This corridor transforms the transition from public space to academic and/or institutional, evolving into a spatial sequence that hosts a series of events. It functions both as an exhibition space and as an area for group critique sessions within the art school.
The sequential documentary work Walls merges still photography and spoken word as a close examination of the hidden and overlooked structures that support the corridic F-Space.
