Dinner Pail Table

We were challenged to produce a table that developed some of the themes emerging in our studio work.  This table was intended to be something that could occupy a real space within a brief to be developed for a site in one of the three cities of study.

 My table is a table for an undertaker.  It is inspired by the tradition for undertakers to be joiners who undertake to make coffins.  It is a table for family members to meet around, but suggests other uses, for example as a platform, or as a hatch?

Intriguing

Fear and Segregation

Fear and Segregation

currency

currencies within/without:

alternative currencies are used for various reasons: economic, social….or because of stigma or fear.

 

picture (c) www.workhouses.org

the third city?

“The residents there are accidents of fate, scapegoats to some mysterious natural law of which man knows nothing, isolated for the welfare of their fellows, who else might catch the dread disease, even as they have caught it, nobody knows how.”

Jack London

Jack London, The Cruise of the Snark (New York: Macmillan Co, 1914)

Guerrilla Cinema and Russian Club

On a cold Friday night it seemed like a perfect opportunity for a provisional construction in Sheffield.  How would people react to our cinema? 

We projected Polish film ‘Man of Marble’ onto the facades of various buildings in Sheffield, which attracted attention from random passers-by, the manager of Varsity, Sheffield parking services,  the owner of a car being used as a camera stand, and members of Sheffield’s Russian Club.

Some of us accepted the invitation to Russian Club, which turned out in fact not to be Russian Club but actually to be a group maintaining links with a town in the Ukraine.  Chat over mulled wine and cheese revealed that our host thought our cinema exercise to be a self interested waste of time – apparently we should have been studying traffic flows instead.  After repeatedly refusing offers of Russian salad we took our leave to return to the Sheffield of our normal understanding.

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