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W5417
20.10.2012
Untitled - Rachel Alliston
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  • This untitled project was for a temporary installation in London’s Gordon Square. It was planned over the course of ten months by Rachel Alliston and Laura Weatherly. Before starting work on building the piece, Alliston and Weatherly made an exhibition ...

    This untitled project was for a temporary installation in London’s Gordon Square. It was planned over the course of ten months by Rachel Alliston and Laura Weatherly. Before starting work on building the piece, Alliston and Weatherly made an exhibition at UrbanLab which focused on their correspondence regarding the public project. Comprised of excerpts from emails and a pool of reference images that they had exchanged to facilitate their discussion, the exhibition considered urban practice, collaboration and the common. To house their information, Alliston and Weatherly designed and fabricated a set of tables; working drawings for the tables themselves were interspersed amongst the conversation fragments and photographs. Afterwards, the two continued to develop the Gordon Square project. They made digital iteration after digital iteration of their sculpture, emailing CAD files back and forth, and several times changing decisions about building materials. Finally, they decided on wood for the seat and ribbed superstructure with a water-­‐ soluble fabric for paneling that would quickly erode in the London rain. They continued to work on drawings into the week of installation, and only began construction very shortly before the deadline. They couldn’t finish the piece in time, and decided to show the sole completed section in the park. It was up for three days. This is that fragment and these are a few selections from various stages of the drawings.

    This untitled project was for a temporary installation in London’s Gordon Square. It was planned over the course of ten months by Rachel Alliston and Laura Weatherly. Before starting work on building the piece, Alliston and Weatherly made an exhibition ...

    This untitled project was for a temporary installation in London’s Gordon Square. It was planned over the course of ten months by Rachel Alliston and Laura Weatherly. Before starting work on building the piece, Alliston and Weatherly made an exhibition at UrbanLab which focused on their correspondence regarding the public project. Comprised of excerpts from emails and a pool of reference images that they had exchanged to facilitate their discussion, the exhibition considered urban practice, collaboration and the common. To house their information, Alliston and Weatherly designed and fabricated a set of tables; working drawings for the tables themselves were interspersed amongst the conversation fragments and photographs. Afterwards, the two continued to develop the Gordon Square project. They made digital iteration after digital iteration of their sculpture, emailing CAD files back and forth, and several times changing decisions about building materials. Finally, they decided on wood for the seat and ribbed superstructure with a water-­‐ soluble fabric for paneling that would quickly erode in the London rain. They continued to work on drawings into the week of installation, and only began construction very shortly before the deadline. They couldn’t finish the piece in time, and decided to show the sole completed section in the park. It was up for three days. This is that fragment and these are a few selections from various stages of the drawings.