London, UK
Mission Title: Psycho Buildings
Mission Date: 17-07-2008
SCRIPT
- Go to the Hayward Gallery London, and go on the gallery walk through with curator Ralph Rugoff (June 21).
- After the tour have a conversation with Rugoff. Ask him about the exhibition and some of the challenges it presented, where is the line between art and architecture? Can an architect be an artist or are they something different? What can architects learn from artist?
- Walk through the exhibition on your own, interact with it, take a spin in one of Gelitin’s boats, traverse the violent landscape of Mike Nelson’s installation, per into the empty doll houses of Rachel Whiteread. What do you see? How do you feel?
- Tell us a story, take lots of strange shots and weird angles, give us the sense of the exhibition like an artist rather than the static still shots of bad news show. Experiment, but don’t forget about narrative.
TRAVEL BAG
Can art explode out of its frames?
Floating through a sculpture court in a ramshackle boat, navigating apocalyptic war zones of the imagination, destroying apartments, crashing buildings, rebuilding with gossamer and silk: ever since Gordon Matta Clark started taking slices out of buildings, artists haven’t been content to merely decorate architecture with a few friendly flourishes, but have been intervening, dissecting, activating, destroying, transforming buildings. Either by seduction or by force, artists have been challenging us to rethink how we live, work, look, and interact with space and architecture. The role of the artist in regards to space has exploded out of the frames of canvas and off plinths and into an expanded field.
Architecture’s role is supremely useful in finding way to build structures that humans use; art in all its shimmering strangeness is the pinnacle of uselessness, and it’s role is not to put a roof over your head, but to tumble your unconsciousness till you can dance on the ceiling. At the Hayward Gallery in London, a handful of artists have showed just a few of the many ways that artists have used architecture as mental and perceptual spaces as much as physical one.
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