Along horizontality Joanna Geldard

My studies into the nature of horizontality extend to integrate an approach to space and site in non-spaces/in-between spaces. It aims to negotiate and contribute to the interpretations of non-spaces on the edges of towns and city spaces through artistic, sculptural intervention. This begins with the line as horizon and extends to mapping and schematics of space, in effect blueprinting via the encounter of the body with space. This horizon also acts metaphorically for those artists on the edge between disciplines and lacking in location/place in addition to the metaphor of on the edge as social empowerment becomes increasingly relevant to arts practices in the current economic climate. This acts as a tension between space and body and place and site.

Using the integration of sculptural architecture/ drawing/writing practices with the body this study explores how the term horizontality acts as a method for sites in non-spaces. It aims to extend the dimension of horizontality as an alternative to the vertical narrative of institutional art hierarchy and establish horizontality in terms of how the nature of art in these spaces might appear. Current studies are all unrealised projects and act as investigations. The work attached is just one aspect of the documentation for imagined sites at these edges and are unrealised sites captured in print.