Proposal
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Site Specific Proposal
Rob Cubbon and Rob Jameson
Our chosen site for this module is a large empty car park opposite tower mills in Leeds, between Globe road and Water lane. It is currently up for sale and the land is part of the Holbeck Urban Village. As a car park it has been empty for as long as we have been using it though signs state that it can be used for coach parking. though the space is largely empty it contains a wealth of detritus and detail to work from, The site is mainly recorded using photography, but some drawings and collections have also been made .
Prior to being a car park an industrial building stood on the site as can clearly be seen by marks and patterns on the walls and floor as well as beams jutting from an adjacent building, however I have not been able to discover exactly what type of building it was neither have any of the estate agents handling it been able to tell me. Looking at the kind of structures left behind we have surmised it must have been some sort of mechanical or heavy industry workplace. We visited the Dutton and Swindell exhibit at PSL to gain an insight into collaborative practices.
We’ve been working with a hybrid brief consisting of word association and the minutiae and debris that gives this space its history. The work will be based exclusively around the site and involves manipulation the documentation we’ve made on it to provide a viewpoint and critique on the history and feel of the space, the mystery of what it was before and what will happen to it in the future. our specific idea is to produce a retrospective exhibit and display this through the promotional media surrounding such events. This will be done through the production of photographs, posters and possibly photo books providing we have the resources.
At the start of the module we attended a pinhole photography workshop where we developed and designed our own cameras. These have been utilised on the site and film and digital photography will continue to be an integral part. A variety of media have been used to experiment and record in the space, sketchbooks, film, digital and writing have been used.
For the production of posters the digital print room will need to be used and photo books can be obtained from many high street suppliers, a certain amount of photographs can be printed for free via the Internet.
(———this part had images and captions———-)Bibliography
Books:
Warwick, Rhona ed. (2006) Arcade: Artists and Place making, London, Black Dog publishing
Kwon, Miwon (2004) One Place after Another, Site Specific Art and Locational Identity, Massachusetts, MIT press
Pipes, A (4th edition 2005) Production for Graphic designers, London, Laurence King
Exhibitions and artists:
Dutton, Steve/Swindells Steve (2011) Stag and the Hound, Public Space Leeds, 24 March
Slinkachu: http://slinkachu.com/ accessed 6/04/11
Kessels Kramer ‘Hans Brinker Budget hotel’ http://www.hans-brinker.com accessed 15/04/11
Time scale
04/05/11 - 09/05/11 final research and development for final piece
09/05/11 - 16/05/11 complete final pieces
16/05/11 - 23/05/11 evaluative work
