1st - 4th September: Week 8 of The Drawing Shed
Unfaithful Original: A performance structured around a series of telephone conversations between an artist and an architect by Bronwen Buckeridge, Alan Worn and Michiko Sumi.
Responding to the idea of the shed as a traditional refuge for tinkering, pottering and dreaming up more or less practicable schemes and alternate realities, Buckeridge, Worn and Sumi will transform the shed into a den for an architect to draft an imagined vision of Leeds. The artist wanders the city describing, over the telephone, the spaces and places she encounters to the architect sitting at their drafting table in the shed. The architect follows the flow of language with their pen, translating the conversation into a series of drawings – impressions of locations experienced by proxy.
Live conversations between the artist and the architect will be amplified so they can be overheard by visitors to PSL. Following the performance, these conversations, the drawings and snapshots of the real locations will remain in the shed as traces of the encounter. The project attempts to capture the elusive experience of place and explores the potential for misrepresentations and re-imaginings that are produced in the acts of verbal description and visualisation.
The spoken word is a key component in Bronwen Buckeridge’s practice and 'Unfaithful Original' extends her concern with the working method or production process as a model for performance. Following other recent collaborations (with actors from the Beijing Opera in Lacuna Cut, 2008/9 and choreographer Janet Smith in To the Memory of M.A. Vorontsova, 2009 ) the project also develops Buckeridge's interest in working with practitioners from related disciplines.
Alan Worn is an architectural researcher who investigates issues of reference and communicability in architecture through speculative design proposals. Of particular interest is the role of drawing conventions and procedures in the architect's imagination.
www.alanworn.com
Michiko Sumi is an architectural researcher exploring critical drawing procedures with an interest in the interaction of specific techniques and materials. She is concerned with drawing as a process through which things are unexpectedly encountered and discovered.
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'To The Memory of M.A.Vorontsova,' 2009, Installation view by Bronwen Buckeridge
'Spread', 2009, ink on film by Alan Worn
by Michiko Sumi
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