MMU | MIRIAD | VC | Location, Memory and the Visual Research Group

Manchester Metropolitan University, Lecture Theatre 4, Manton Building, Oxford Road (opp. Aquatic Centre)

Steven Gartside - (un)real (e)states -: Using the large scale architectural project as a starting point, the paper will consider ways in which architectural space – particularly its writing and image – is often presented as an idealised, abstract concept. There will be a focus on projects where there is a possible intrigue at the contained site, taking in issues of scale, spatial boundaries, individual experience and notions of transgression.

Sam Gathercole - Hospitalising Perec -: Hospitals are simultaneously public and private spaces - institutions that can, and have, been read as complete social structures comparable to the ‘city’. They are also spaces where the most personal, private, intimate moments are experienced. The paper will mark a critical shift in thinking from a ‘modern’ commitment to forming and participating in a communal, social space, to a more personal, reactive, experience of that space.

Rut Blees Luxemburg -: Artist Rut Blees Luxemburg will be talking about her work, which consistently explores aspects of urban space. She has commented, ‘I try to illuminate the poetics of space and search for entry points into the psyche of the city which allow a free-fall into the city of one’s imagination.’ This can be seen in the publications London – A Modern Project (1997), Liebeslied (2000), as well as exhibitions such as Phantom, Tate, Liverpool (2003) and the exhibition Ffolly, a collaboration with the architect Patrick Lynch, currently showing at the Glyn Vivian Gallery, Swansea.

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