exhibition, Monday to Sunday, 14th - 20th November 2005

[Fri - Sun, 10:00 - 17:00]

"Lacespectre"

The work will consist of a three dimensional enactment of a lace pattern exploring materiality, reflection and movement

WILLEM DE BRUIJN

"A few books I make / In Prospero's wake"

This installation shows some of the hand-made books that I have been making alongside my doctoral research into seventeenth-century alchemical books. I consider the books themselves to be spaces of architectural research and intervention, investing anew some of the striking fragments of my historical material in their design.

"Inscriptions from a cruising ground"

The installation is comprised of moulds made from the backs of people who recall their personal experiences in cruising / public sex grounds all around the globe. The audio stories are played with a slide projection of an empty and closed up Russell Square at night. The work examines the limit of representation, the issue of research and subjectivity, body/space/sexuality, and the sanitization of urban public space.

"Zero Emission Luminaires"

A group of 5 full scale prototype street lights for New Mayfair which are powered by fermenting kitchen waste and donkey manure. The lights are constructed entirely from reclaimed materials, are relocatable, maintenace intense & prone to rusting.

"The Edge of Emily’s Desk"

A filmic investigation of the house – the room; the desk - of the poet Emily Dickinson shot on location in Amherst, Mass. (March 2005), The film is intended to convey, however obliquely, an appreciation of the poet’s spatial practice – what one might describe as a ‘poetics of agoraphobia.’

"Physical/metaphysical Model"

As a tool of architectural mediation and research, the physical model challenges the hegemony of drawing over design, building and the intellectual. "Physical/metaPhysical Model" comprises a physical form cast in clear polyester resin, which levitates on an invisible magnetic field. Whilst architectural models are usually associated with craft and matter, the magnetic fields construct an invisible, intangible and immaterial reality: a seemingly paradoxical immaterial-material hybrid in a way that does not imply the virtual or the conceptual.