23.06.08
OSOP08 final weekthis is the final week of OSOP08 so if you haven’t been to northampton yet you’d better get a move on. the work comes down on sunday.
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work information search photographic, net and installation artwork by rich white © 2008 : updated 26.06.08
survivalist
installation using found timber and red oxide primer.
2008
commissioned by OSOP for greyfriars bus station, northampton.
7 - 28 june 2008.
survivalist is a response to the continued threat of demolition to greyfriars bus station in northampton.
my intention was to make it appear that the building was somehow attempting to brace itself and possibly even save a part of itself from the demolition.
to achieve this i built a structure that appeared to have grown out of the side of a disused unit in the area beneath the station concourse. the structure was built from materials found in and around the station and painted to match the unit.
CUBElab
residency at CUBE, manchester.
2008
the residency runs from 1st august to 6th september 2008.
i will be responding to the architecture of the residency space, and of the surrounding area of manchester city centre. work will be constructed mainly from materials found in and around CUBE.
my focus will be on how visitors and staff (and i) use the space. the space is a thoroughfare, which is something i will need to bear in mind whilst designing and building the work. i wish to produce architectural-seeming alterations that affect, or are a result of, how people interact with the space. these alterations are intended to almost appear as intentional parts of the original building design with only their unusual positioning, material and/or angle betraying their purpose.
i will be regularly documenting all aspects of the residency online in a weblog through photographs, drawing and writing, and using responses from visitors to CUBE and the weblog to inform the work.
07.06.08
survivalist is go!survivalist is complete and open for viewing until the 28th june.
go along and have a look. there’s more great art to see there too: work by lisa berry, michael shaw and jonathan velardi.
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03.06.08
two days ini’ve been working for two days in greyfriars bus station now. it’s going pretty well.
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19.05.08
two weeks to goin two weeks time i go to northampton to install survivalist.
it should take about five days.
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