Field 30th September 2014
Field 30th September 2014
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Field Study's Man in E11 on the A10, and the a10, and the sounds of war in a brown field Utopia.
I was studying a north London field on the day UK Members of Parliament debated and voted in the House of Commons on a motion for action in Iraq. I studied some architectural elements for access to buildings and used my smart device to visually and virtually record an encounter with a stairwell in Enfield. I wanted to enter the feature but I did not get beyond a superficial view (and collection) of the image before I had to move on and get on with what I was supposed to be doing. My furtive field studying, consisting of other similarly brief encounters, might be considered to be a process of creating a foundation for a Utopian dwelling. It occurred to me that my dwelling, in my mind, might never get beyond an ad hoc aggregation or assemblage of collected entrances and exits. My fantasies about a non-place were a form of personal diversion from the grim concerns of the day. I couldn't avoid the ghosts of explosions past, being in Enfield and that area's very close association
Wednesday 24th September 2014
Chichester Rd E11 Coburg Rd N22 Crouch End Hill N8 Junction Rd N19 Haverstock Hill NW3 West End Lane NW6 Powis Sq W11 Clapham Manor St SW4 Embankment SW1A Villiers St WC2N Stafford St W1S Tower St WC2H Earlham St WC2H Houghton St WC2A Charlotte St W1T Gordon St WC1H Acton St WC1X Holloway Rd N7 St Pauls Rd N1 Compton Ave N1 Chichester Rd E11
Field Study's Man in E11 on being nowhere near the Utopian field of Neant
'The artist is driven - by the very fact of being an artist - to realise, to create in art, that which is not, which cannot be, because, as soon as it is realised in concrete terms (paint or words) it ceases to be itself. Consequently, it must fail.' (Richard N Coe, Beckett. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh/London, 1964). I consoled myself that I might have succeeded by the very fiction of being an artist. My creation of a convincing puddle in a ready-made and authentic puddled landscape lead me to explore the failure of consequence and the consequence of failure, when attempting a mapping of the puddled Utopian field of Neant. I got nowhere or so I thought. I failed to fail. The problem with my piddling puddled piddles is the very selfish fact of my self being the art reflected by them. I can only continue to find myself when I am fantasized in virtual terms (). I contemplated the piddle (pictured above) for a very long minute and then consulted a certain Dr Foster -
Field Study's Man in E11 recalls a cry of “Bollocks!” at the edge of Wanstonia.
The Wanstead Fringe - ‘Remembering the M11’ A discussion with John Rodgers, Ian Bourn & others At, The Wanstead Tap. Tuesday 9 th September 2014. 7.30pm- “Bollocks!” This was the dismissive response to Ian Bourn’s comments about the social make up of some of the anti-road protestors who resisted the construction of the M11 Link Road in Leytonstone/Wanstead in the early 1990s. Film-maker Ian Bourn had described some of the anti-road protestors as middle class ‘crusties’ on their gap year. Their hedonistic interventions in the protest against the building of the link road had, Bourn asserted, alienated some, if not many, of the local residents. Full volume all night parties/weekenders (e.g.) had only served to disturb and undermine the authentic local nature of the anti-road campaign. “Bollocks!” rang out again, disturbing the audience’s polite attentiveness. Ian Bourn tried to qualify his judgments about various people involved in the anti-road protests and this eli
Friday 12th September 2014
ghost pub CHICHESTER RD E11 - COBURG RD N22 - BERTRAM ST N19 - RONALDS RD N5 - ARGYLE ST WC1 - MARCHMONT ST WC1 - CHALTON ST NW1 - HERBERT ST NW5 - WINCHESTER RD NW3 - LANCASTER RD W11 - HOLLAND WALK W8 - MASBRO RD W14 - FALKIRK ST N1 - BETHNAL GREEN RD E1 - COMMERCIAL RD E1 - OLD JAMAICA RD SE16 - BLACKHEATH HILL SE10 - CHICHESTER RD E11 ghost tree fence