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Time | Making | Space

Making Space series

Thursday 7 December 2017 6.30 - 8.30pm

Geological Society, Piccadilly, W1

£12, £6 concessions. Includes talk and drinks reception.

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Explore the ways in which time can influence our relationship with architecture.

Architecture is sensitive to time. From the intimately felt rhythms of the body, changeable urban currents, or slow everyday practices that influence how we experience architecture spatially, to the ways in which the physicality of a building, city or landscape is altered over time. This event will rethink and think through the notion of time by drawing upon themes of slowness, the echo, implied and belated memories, and 'nowness' in relation to site-specificity. To gauge temporality in architecture by looking into that which is acute but with a slight delay, immediate but with a felt aftermath.

Time | Making | Space brings together practitioners from architectural design, music and filmmaking, whose work explores how time and the temporal in architecture is not simply a matter of measure. Join us for live sonic performances, film screenings and discussions that critically examine how interactions between space, time, sound and moving image can provoke new approaches to architecture and design thinking.

Speakers:
Steve Chance – architect, founder of Chance De Silva, a practice set up to explore the possibilities of architecture in interaction with other participants. Their recent collaboration with Scanner, Vex House, has been shortlisted for the AJ House of the Year Award.
Carol Mavor – writer, academic, and filmmaker who has published widely on photography, cinema, colour and childhood. She is the author of the film Fairy Tale Still Almost Blue which will also be screened during the event.
Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) – artist working on the experimental terrain between sound and space. Active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, Scanner has scored a number of critically acclaimed pieces such as the Narnia ballet (2015), Philips Wake-Up Light (2009), and the re-opening of the Stedelijk Museum among others.

Selected research projects from the Bartlett School of Architecture’s doctoral programme will also be exhibited and performed in the Geological Society library from 6pm.

Organised in collaboration with the doctoral programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

£12, £6 concessions. Includes talk and drinks reception.

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Participants

Vex House, 2016. A collaboration between Scanner and Chance de Silva Architects.

Steve Chance

Steve Chance is the founder of Chance de Silva Architects, a practice that was set up to explore the possibilities of architecture in interaction with other participants. These might include artists, designers, musicians, community groups, or performers.

They seek projects which allow exploration and experimentation. To achieve this, they have collaborated, for example, with artists Matt Hale and Frank Watson on the Venus project, and with Kirsty Brooks at Cargo Fleet.

Their work is not just about space, or the qualities of materials, but about what they evoke or express.

Chance de Silva’s work has been featured on TV in the UK and France, and radio in the UK, published in the national press and in books in France, Spain, China and the UK.

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Carol Mavor

Carol Mavor is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Manchester. As a writer who takes creative risks in form (literary and experimental) and political risks in content (sexuality, racial hatred, child-loving and the maternal), she has published widely on photography, cinema, colour and childhood.

All her books, including Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour (Reaktion, 2013), are richly illustrated with an eye on design. Her most recent monograph, Aurelia: Art and Literature through the Mouth of the Fairy Tale (Reaktion, 2017), is splashed with plenty of aurelian gold metallic ink and is perhaps the most beautiful of Mavor’s publications: indeed, it is an ‘artist’s book’.

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Scanner, Salle des Departs, Hopital Raymond Poincaré in Garches.

Robin Rimbaud (Scanner)

Scanner (British artist Robin Rimbaud) traverses the experimental terrain between sound and space connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music.

He scored the hit musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba (2007) and Narnia ballet (2015) based on the popular children’s book, Philips Wake-Up Light (2009), the re-opening of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 2012 and in 2016 installed his Water Drops sound work in Rijeka Airport in Croatia. His work Salles des Departs is permanently installed in a working morgue in Paris whilst Vex House, the residential house he designed a permanent soundtrack with Chance de Silva architects, was finished to critical acclaim in 2017.

Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Wayne MacGregor, Mike Kelley, Torres, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, Laurie Anderson and Hussein Chalayan, amongst many others.

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