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In the void that is the re-construction site of a former Victorian-era warehouse in central London, international artist Aeneas Wilder creates a self-supporting structure out of hundreds of pieces of wood. Typical of his work, the installation is created out of balance and tension. Untypically - for Wilder usually destroys his work ceremonially upon completion - the installation will be allowed to stay up until it collapses, as and when. A live webcam feed will be projected in the gallery, of the installation and the builders going about their work, until the installation collapses.
Aeneas Wilder’s work can be read as about identity and architecture. About self-built monuments that create institutional identities, and how they get challenged by time. About how we read our bodies, relative to our environment: protected and sheltered, or humble and vulnerable. In this proposed work, we overlay another dimension: the physical (the work exists) and the virtual (we can only see it through a webcam feed).
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conversation between the builder and Kate Goodwin:
Ben: Yeah, it was better than I thought it would be…I was a bit sceptical about the whole thing ‘cos I’m not into art in particular but it’s interesting.. it’s better than I expected it to be anyway
KG: Why were you sceptical?
to read the rest of the conversation, please click <here>
conversations overhead on site:
It kind of looks like Jenga
Did you give it a jab….
No
It looks like its sagging in the middle,
What he was saying was that ..
to read the rest of the conversation, please click <here>
We would like to thank Kate Goodwin for co-curating the exhibition. She is the Drue Heinz Curator for Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts, having initially trained as an architect in Sydney. She is author of the Dandelion: The Making of the UK Pavilion at Shanghai World Expo 2010.
We would also like to thank FOSA (fosarch.com), our partner architecture firm, for financial and technical support.
And Edward Cullinan Architects for the use of their building.
And Jerram Falkus for the materials.