Chris Down, laying out projection for urban warfare
Students talk with architect-artists Andrew King and Angela Silver about their new work.
This week, we are in installation mode for imagineacity, an exhibition that looks at the interface of artistic and architectural design processes at the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University. On site are Andrew King and Angela Silver, Alison Norlen, and Chris Down. King and Silver have created a new work based on local urban elements to complement romalux, the digital video piece created in the context of their Prix de Rome prize residency in Rome in 2004. Alison Norlen is creating a new site-specific installation of drawings and wire maquettes that play with the idea of familiar and forgotten "useless architectures" in urban follies, and will workshop ideas with participants in the Architectures for Creativity seminar. Chris Down has been creating a wall-scale painted site-specific installation, urban warfare, based on an image of a table top model of a futuristic city for the game "WarHammer 40,000." Woven with these and other art works are a series of installations of architectural representation in the form of sketches, blueprints, and plans, suggesting the shared imagination of space that underlies both realms and the thoroughly social, cultural and ephemeral character of contemporary built and visual landscapes.
