GMU:Provokative Architektur/Beth Hughes

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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


Beth Hughes/ Prov. Arch/ Mid November

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


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Beth Hughes/ Prov. Arch

Research

Links: Jane and Louise Wilson Exhibition

Artist Magdalena Jetelová

Architecture Blog feature about Lebbeus Woods

Artist Harris Epaminonda

Nasty Brutalist and Short

Ballardian.com

Michel Foucault 'Of Other Spaces'

Images of the work of artist Monica Bonvicini