Falsifying the City 1.0
This project focuses mainly on exploring possibilities in urban space through playful behaviour on the street. It also offers a methodology of remaking space, which involves translating a personal, invisible perception of space into visible space through video. As the audience watches the video, their participation constitutes new meanings of space.
Falsiyfing the city
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Methodology
The project began with a series of walking workshops in Peckham Road, inspired by artist Lottie Child. It turned out that unorthodox behaviours seem to give a new context to the original space. For example, when people pretend to be another part of a tree, the rigid perspective of the surroundings is broken.
The site-specific performance and choreography immediately became another main inspiration in the walking practise that followed. Inspired by the performers in the video Stephan Koplowitz: TaskForce UK 2009 Perf Excerpts: Dartington, I found that the performance interacting with the space surprisingly created another invisible space. As can be seen in the diagrams above, this shows that the original space produces behaviours that are also the product of another space. It has been shown that it is possible to reshape and change spaces through behaviours.
The site-specific performance and choreography immediately became another main inspiration in the walking practise that followed. Inspired by the performers in the video Stephan Koplowitz: TaskForce UK 2009 Perf Excerpts: Dartington, I foTo visualise the invisible behavioural space, I divided these behaviours into different types, including running, climbing, lying down and pretending. I began to collage abnormal behaviours with places where they never occur, such as running on the façade of a dormitory. Eventually I developed four images that illustrated invisible spaces through behaviours.und that the performance interacting with the space surprisingly created another invisible space. As can be seen in the diagrams above, this shows that the original space produces behaviours that are also the product of another space. It has been shown that it is possible to reshape and change spaces through behaviours.
Using augmented reality, I arbitrarily located the digital image in a real place in Peckham Road. What was fascinating was that not only was the touchable experience of the space transformed from images, but the environment itself interacted in some random way with the virtual image. The sound, the weather, the light and the people passing by became part of my work. Finally, the original space was recreated through the process of viewing by the audience in the form of a video.
By exploring the re-creation of the space in different ways, this project aimed to provide a new perspective on urban space. The way I visualise the real and imaginary space also implies more possibilities of how visual art can access urban space.
Related links:
Koplowitz, S. (2011) Stephan Koplowitz:TaskForce UK 2009 Perf Excerpts:Dartington (site-specific performance). 5 July. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdiUNTCQTfY (Accessed: 20 April 2022)
Child, L.(2007) Lottie Child: Street training, Available at: https://lottiechild.wordpress.com/about/lottie-child/ (Accessed: 20 April 2022)