Piasecki, Simon City Dell. [Show/Exhibition]
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City Dell was a directorial collaboration with Stephen Burke in which we aimed to place multiple cities in a small park, in a city, unfolding durationally over a five-hour period. The paper buildings of A Wonderful Engine heavily influenced it, but these were realised in actual landscape and in a larger, less fragile scale. The site was Queen Square – a small park surrounded by railings in a square of Georgian houses.
The work took a good deal of inspiration from Calvino’s Invisible Cities (1997) but further considered change and movement as a constant and opposite phenomenon to the notion of settlement; our settlers were neon-suited dancers that were tethered by bungee cord to various points around the small square park. They worked with a ‘kit’ of internally lit model buildings, working their way into the centre, stretching the chords, to build cities, to take down cities, to reconfigure environments. In this work, as a further development of the telescopic oppositions of Nightflight (2006) and A Wonderful Engine (2005), I wanted to place the audience both within and without, to objectify and subjectify synchronously placing my map of a city within a park within the actual city that loomed, lit for LightNight, all around: the outside inside the outside.
| Item Type: | Show/Exhibition |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Creative Arts & Humanities > School of Creative and Performing Arts |
| Depositing User: | Susan Murray |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2013 11:34 |
| Last Modified: | 28 May 2021 15:05 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/237 |
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