I drew several texts into the physical space of the
the University of East Anglia campus: a discussion between students and prospective students about its aesthetic qualities; a series of questions drawn from an televised interview with Denys Lasdun at the unveiling of his design; and a fragment of
Stockhausen's Plus-Minus.
We passed through the campus following a path I had planned using Google Maps and images harvested from the web to parse UEA's multi-level pedestrian walkways. At each of five specific locations I posed the campus one of the tv interviewer's questions to Lasdun, following which I played a fragment of
Plus-Minus. Both
question and
answer were amplified toward the concrete buildings through a megaphone, the audience hearing them as reflections.
On the grassy area in front of the Ziggurats, I mixed a batch of concrete using water drawn from the broad. There was enough to fill a small mould, which was broken open in London the following evening, when it had had time to cure.
Commissioned and curated by Claire Feeley and Ciara Moloney for
Chapter 1 of Jerusalem.
Special thanks to Stefan Muthesius, Amy Budd, Francesco and Cara.
Some feeling of living in today was
kindly supported by Outpost Gallery, Norwich.
Some feeling of living in today is related to
Carbon Dating.