Art
City
Catalog view is the alternative 2D representation of our 3D virtual art space. This page is friendly to assistive technologies and does not include decorative elements used in the 3D gallery.
agathering
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Spaces in this world:
Statement:
March 2020 saw the first lockdown in London and with it the closure of arts venues and nightclubs. The shared liminal space of the dance was gone and replaced with isolation—isolation writ large in the empty streets and architectures of the city. The space I present is an artefact, an abstraction and condensation, of the countless walks through those vacant architectures and city soundscapes. It is a psychogeography scripted in sound and graffiti. A collection of photos and tunes slightly altered and mixed into architectures representative of an altogether different liminal space that the city became.
The space is meant to be explored without restriction in any direction. Walls are images and images are walls. They are not boundaries but rather items that shape perspective. It is best to play with perspective and lose yourself in the spaces in-between.
'agathering' is dedicated to my uncle, Steve Blankenship, who unbeknownst to himself has been a consistent source of artistic inspiration. This one's for you, Stevie.
3D Environment Description:
The space is meant to be explored without restriction in any direction. Walls are images and images are walls. They are not boundaries but rather items that shape perspective. It is best to play with perspective and lose yourself in the spaces in-between.
Artworks in this space:
Zone 1: Gallery
A tongue-in-cheek representation of a 'traditional' gallery space. This is where the viewer starts their journey.
wrought iron throwie
photograph
hook$ with chains
red face white wall
falling up
photograph
face in lines
abandoned pitch at night
root door at night
react
etching on carriage door
A looping video showing the opening and closing of train door. There is metal plating on the door and on that plating is etched the word "React"
Zone 2: Underground
The view from below looking upwards. Above a golden hand floats various geometric objects: spheres, cubes, rectangular prisms. Towards the upper left are a collection of rectangular prisms, with a few spheres, that represent a London underground tube station. The objects overlap and intersect, representing the seemingly maze like structure of tube stations. Some objects have moving images of escalators. Above these is a large cube depicting empty office space. Between the hand and the tube station is a sphere that is an underground train carriage.
trinkets (hand sun moon)
neverempty
underground groans
altered field recording of squeals and screeches heard on an underground train journey.
office space
station ambience
drone ambience from the electric motor of escalator. rhythms from the metal steps folding and unfolding. the sound of entering the turnstile initiates multiple layers of rhythms and tones and found sounds of an underground station. are your teeth clinching yet?
Zone 3: four faced moon
four moon door
script
dream stencil
"dream" stencilled using black paint on grey and silver wall
thumbs
photo collage of electricity, lightbulbs, and the ape mind
four moon ambient loop
Chimes, bells, horns, and clacks all bathed in reverb. A sonar pulse delayed appears every now and then.
flower church
digital collage
A Gardener's Hand
Zone 4: Crowded Silence
Alban's Wall
digital collage
Zone 5: Patterns
A bridge in pattern
