Compton Verney hosted an exhibition from The Whitworth Art Gallery in Summer 2009 entitled Subversive Spaces: Surrealism+Contemporary Art which I visited with a fellow art student. It was split into two sections - the one entitled Wandering the City was one that specifically appealed to me. Calin Dan's Sample City 2003 was a 11min video of an innocent at large in Bucharest wandering with a door attached to his back. (Described as a flaneur walking through the streets like the melancholic simpleton of traditional folk tales who unwittingly stumbles on buried truths). Whilst I was 'stewarding' this week I had a look at the catalogue for the exhibition from which the following is taken:
"Blurring the boundaries between our conscious and subconscious, through acknowledgement of the ways in which layers of memory and fantasy imprint themselves on the surface of our lives and our spaces for living". p8
"Ruins, wastelands, sewers, demolitions, the repositories of lives lived and the remanents [note the fabric-like implications] left behind, tell stories of attempted resistance against the order imposed by the city's spaces". p10
My silk-screen has been prepared by Taryn the kind Textile Tutor at BCU so I will be able to start printing the street block onto organisa after Easter. During the holidays I will do some more research on the above and prepare the two other panels.
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