I think it's fitting I want to learn German for the amount of German artists that feature on my blog.
Gregor is another excellent germanic export, playing with ideas around Freuds uncanny or unheimlich. I knew I hadn't seen the last of this word...
Gregor features in the Tacita Dean 'Place' book (this book is a fave'), under subheading: fantastic. Agreed!
His work is an 'architectural reminder that Freuds uncanny, or unheimlich, is closely related to the homely, or heimlich'.
In Totes Haus (Dead House) walls are built in front of other identical walls, so changes are perceptible but unrecognisable; floors lined with sound insulating materials altering room characteristics invisibly...the 'increasingly oppressive atmosphere palpable nonetheless' ' a building of intense spatial and temporal dislocation'.
Most interestingly relevant, it is commented on how this could be considered a form of exploration of a greater collective memory and communities lost.
I'm thinking about this in conjunction with 'profound limitations of the the visual', Actaully altering places, creating a strange feeling of place... Buildings in Manchester are built over with completely different things, but what if it was to be replicating, place-ing elsewhere? Making multiples, identical and place-ing together?
Maybe I could visit dead places and spaces and houses around Manchester, and leave multiples of strangeness, for fun?
Gregor is another excellent germanic export, playing with ideas around Freuds uncanny or unheimlich. I knew I hadn't seen the last of this word...
Gregor features in the Tacita Dean 'Place' book (this book is a fave'), under subheading: fantastic. Agreed!
His work is an 'architectural reminder that Freuds uncanny, or unheimlich, is closely related to the homely, or heimlich'.
In Totes Haus (Dead House) walls are built in front of other identical walls, so changes are perceptible but unrecognisable; floors lined with sound insulating materials altering room characteristics invisibly...the 'increasingly oppressive atmosphere palpable nonetheless' ' a building of intense spatial and temporal dislocation'.
Most interestingly relevant, it is commented on how this could be considered a form of exploration of a greater collective memory and communities lost.
I'm thinking about this in conjunction with 'profound limitations of the the visual', Actaully altering places, creating a strange feeling of place... Buildings in Manchester are built over with completely different things, but what if it was to be replicating, place-ing elsewhere? Making multiples, identical and place-ing together?
Maybe I could visit dead places and spaces and houses around Manchester, and leave multiples of strangeness, for fun?
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