CORNERS

‘Nodes are the strategic foci into which the observer can enter, typically either junctions of paths, or concentrations of some characteristic.’
Lynch. The Image Of The City. The MIT Press. 2000. p72
A corner can be seen as a node within the context of an urban map. A city is made up from multiple nodes linked together by routes, structures and transport systems. This film asks the question can corners emulate the lost public squares, of London?
Corners have two states, public and private. The private corner is the internal corner of a room, where objects are hidden, ‘put out of the way’, and are arguably the last aspect of a room we notice upon entering a space. A few centimetres away is the external corner. A place where people, arrange meetings, make phone calls, eat a sandwich etc. People identify their location at these points, they need to make decisions on direction, they are the focal point of the street scene.
Using a collage of footage, filmed from around London, this work will bring together separate elements, which will evoke experiences relating to corners. A set of Angled screens will be used to project onto, they will distort the collage, overlapping footage, and forcing it to conform to its shape.

_’Corners’. Exhibition in Art Space M-Post. Seoul, Korea. 6th-24th September 2005.

This project focuses on one of the key aspects of my research interests. How do we engage with the city in the digital age. This project was presented at the M-Post Gallery in Seoul, Korea [6th-24th September 2005]. The ideas developed in this work, have been used for college lectures.