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==Jeremy Booth | workbook | Provocative Architecture==
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===statement 23.10.12===


I would like to look at how ideas of tangible and intangible histories and cultural 'matierals' can be considered, interrogated, and reimagined, through strategies other than typical museum and/or collection-related, authorative positions. I'm particularly interested in ideas of interactivity and mobility.
        * [[/workings part 1/]] initial workings and development


... elaboration as keyword/terms
        * [[/workings part 2/]] initial mask-making and tests
* intangible / tangible
* material / immaterial
* public space
* 'domains'
* culture / history / heritage
* lateral thinking around the idea of architecture


As a starting point I've done some pencil drawings. They are based on Walking Tours of German cities, from the Lonely Planet guide book series. Below are Weimar and Dresden. The line follows the route of the Walking Tour, all other details are absent. I'm interested in the idea of directing, and being directed through space. Movement itself becoming a form of architecture.
        * [[/workings part 3/]] project development


[[File:WeimarScansmall.jpg]]
        * [[/workings part 4/]] development of plaster works


walking tour, Weimar
        * [http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/GMU:Provokative_Architektur/Jeremy project synopsis]
 
[[File:DresdenScansmall.jpg]]
 
walking tour, Dresden
 
====Revised statement 1====
 
In some ways, '''architecture can be as much a barrier to culture and heritage as a supporting mechanism for it'''. It can restrict access to tangible objects while creating an unnecessary container for intangible ones. This is particularly the case when we need to pay entry to museums and art galleries, when their opening hours are restrictive, when they are crowded or unappealing, when they do not meet the needs of certain groups, and when collection items are not available for public viewing. As well, the need to 'build something' is sometimes not possible on sites of intrinsic cultural and historical value.
 
During the next weeks I will undertake a number of loose experiments around the idea of ''' 'barrier free' culture and heritage''' sites. Particuarly interested in intangable, immaterial cultural qualities.
 
== Sketch for an Fauvist Retreat ==
 
Thinking about the art historical context of some of the woodland and lake areas outside of Dresden. These areas were of course frequented by artists involved in German Expressionism, such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Br%C3%BCcke die Bruecke] and the [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauvism Fauvists]. For these artists, it was a setting in which they could enjoy nature and the company of others while also creating, and furthering the ideas behind their art. These ideas included the embracing of Primitivism and the human form as an object of expression.
I'm interested in how such areas could allow diverse histories to play out in real time and space. In this case, looking at human presence, ephemeral and emotive qualities such as idealism and primitivism as a kind of moving, fluid set of principals that change the way that people inhabit space.
 
[[File:Fauvist.Retreat1.jpg]]
 
Sketch for a Fauvist Retreat 1:
site, persons
 
[[File:Artists.retreat.nude.jpg]]
 
Sketch for a fauvist Retreat 2:
site, persons, animals
 
 
== Sketch for Morning Chorus ==
 
Interested in the intangable elements of the New Zealand landscape, including the idea of a recent pre-historic past, Maori and Polynesian mythology and other non-material concepts (such as [http://www.maoridictionary.co.nz/index.cfm?dictionaryKeywords=whakapapa&search.x=0&search.y=0&n=1&idiom=&phrase=&proverb=&loan= whakapapa] and [http://http://www.maoridictionary.co.nz/index.cfm?dictionaryKeywords=mauri&search.x=0&search.y=0&n=1&idiom=&phrase=&proverb=&loan= mauri]) and extinct species. These elements are not necessarily mutually exclusive. For example, the evocation of certain extinct species, also evokes a pre-historic or pre-European history as well as the modern-day mythology that these species have come to be a part of.
I'm interested in how to bring certain species out of the museum and back into their original forest habitat. One of the most emotive ways to do so, would be to bring their song, the sounds of the extinct birds, back into the wider forest chorus. Including the fantastic and bewildering sounds of the great Haasts Eagle flying, nesting, and hunting. This could be achieved through a kind of remote digital sound landscape, which can be tuned into by users.
 
[[File:Huia.Bird.jpg]]
 
Sketch for a Morning Chorus with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huia Huia bird]:
site, persons, remote digital sound landscape
 
[[File:Haasts.Eagle.Moa.jpg]]
 
Sketch for a Morning Chorus with [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haast%27s_Eagle Haast's Eagle] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa Moa] birds:
site, persons, remote digital sound landscape
 
 
== Sketch for a Waitangi park extension  ==
[[file:Wetland.Waitangi.jpg]]
 
image copyright Matthew Oliver, 2009 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ (CC BY-NC-SA 2,0)]

Latest revision as of 10:32, 22 February 2013

Jeremy Booth | workbook | Provocative Architecture

        * workings part 1 initial workings and development
        * workings part 2 initial mask-making and tests
        * workings part 3 project development
        * workings part 4 development of plaster works
        * project synopsis