Projects
Anatomie d'une ville
Armel Hostiou
Four loops of video and photo animation alternate on four monitors. The editing respects the chronology of a single day. The four screens allow both a fragmentation or diffraction of viewpoint (the eye may focus on details which could not be noticed in reality) or a vast widening of the point of view (the four screens can join up to give the impression of a large panorama of the city).
Translocation: Beirut
Roberto Sánchez-Camus
Translocation: Beirut investigates the missing narratives in the abandoned structures dotted across the cityscape. Superimposing guided audio tours of citizen’s homes in Arabic, English, and French over a video journey through abandoned architecture, the viewer is taken through multiple layers of memory and meaning. The project researches how these memories and meanings can shift perceptions of destroyed spaces and lost places that have been rendered neutral and blank by violent conflict.
Anatomy of a city
Olivier Ruellet
This project consists in a series of maps retracing and diseccating selected formal features of metropolitan networks, in a 4-part work: ‘Flâner’ presents the hydrographic networks, ‘Arriver / Partir’ deals with entry points and channels that are railways and runways, ‘Typonymie’ lists all the placenames.
Memory / Territory
Olivier Ruellet
Memory / Territory is an ongoing artistic proposition dealing with introspection, mental depiction of places and diagrammatic representations of geographical memory.
The project draws on a self-exploration of cognitive-mapping and psycho-geography to create an interactive 3D virtual environment where users explore narratives bound to places and re-construct stories by travelling from location to location.
Inward destinations
Olivier Ruellet
The map of Inwards Journeys has been created in-residence, both as response to the site of Nettuno (a seaside town in Italy), and as an introspective effort to organise memories and affects into a personal geography of imaginary destinations.
Invisible Topographies
Roberto Sánchez-Camus
Invisible Topographies investigates how the citizens of a place can explore a locale through a new experience. Inspired by the retold memories of local people Roberto Sánchez-Camus has created a narrated walking tour for one participant, who remains blindfolded throughout the experience. Is their city what it seems? What happens when we stop taking it for granted and put ourselves in the vulnerable position of using our imagination publicly…