GMU:Provokative Architektur/Beth Hughes

Beth Hughes/ Prov. Arch/ 04.11.12

Making:

I am currently creating collages with found/ printed materials.

I am working around the loose idea of the architecture of power, more specifically brutalist architecture, the architecture of bunkers/ concrete/ defence and ultimately the psychological impact of these kinds of architecture.

I am collaging both with paper and on Photoshop. I’m working towards a series of images that can be displayed together as an installation.

I have a few ideas as to how I will develop these collages, one of which being that they would be presented on a TV screen (or two… or three) and cut with video footage (It wouldn’t have a linear narrative but be more a collage of related imagery).

Reading:

• Paul Virilio Bunker Archaeology ISBN 1568980159
• Frederic Chaubin CCCP - Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed ISBN 9783836525190
• Martin Parr Boring Postcards USA: Insights into American social, cultural and architectural values
• Peter York Dictators' Homes: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colourful Despots

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  Working materials

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  Photomontage

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  Photomontage

Beth Hughes/ Prov. Arch/ Mid November

I am continuing to develop my collages using scanned in photographs from family holiday albums:

Beth Hughes/ Prov. Arch

Research

Links

• Jane and Louise Wilson Exhibition
• Artist Magdalena Jetelová
• Architecture Blog feature about Lebbeus Woods
• Artist Harris Epaminonda
• Blog Nasty Brutalist and Short
• Ballardian.com - Architectures of Control
• Michel Foucault lecture 'Of Other Spaces'
• Images of the work of artist Monica Bonvicini

Presentation 18th Dec 2012

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