Kay presented their project during the Apartment Marathon on Saturday 11 December on Broadway Market. Following onto this talk they conducted a photo shoot in their studio, the results of which can be found below...
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Kay
Lou
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This series of photographs, taken on the 11th of December 2009,
provides one answer to the question of how to document a transitional
moment. The worldly possessions of studio 309, Netil House, assembled
and impounded, form a kind of group portrait – the human form is
absent though, replaced and represented by bean bag filling, a
gramophone horn, three pairs of laced leather boots, cardboard boxes
bearing the logo and imprint of a premium banana brand, knots of
steel, bags of durable plastic, a chair missing its third and
purpose-defining leg …
On the 11th of December 2009, the question, much discussed, much
deferred, of definition – as in ‘what the hell do we call this thing
that we are doing’ – is answered again. This time by the random
selection from a blue plastic crate of a 1981 vinyl pressing of Boz
Scaggs’ ‘Hits!’. The song on which the finger randomly alights, ’Lido
Shuffle’ is added to a growing list of possibilities:
the riots
a smile to remember
gamblers all
what make?
crate of wet hens
chalk faces
born into this
le mer et la nuit
…
provides one answer to the question of how to document a transitional
moment. The worldly possessions of studio 309, Netil House, assembled
and impounded, form a kind of group portrait – the human form is
absent though, replaced and represented by bean bag filling, a
gramophone horn, three pairs of laced leather boots, cardboard boxes
bearing the logo and imprint of a premium banana brand, knots of
steel, bags of durable plastic, a chair missing its third and
purpose-defining leg …
On the 11th of December 2009, the question, much discussed, much
deferred, of definition – as in ‘what the hell do we call this thing
that we are doing’ – is answered again. This time by the random
selection from a blue plastic crate of a 1981 vinyl pressing of Boz
Scaggs’ ‘Hits!’. The song on which the finger randomly alights, ’Lido
Shuffle’ is added to a growing list of possibilities:
the riots
a smile to remember
gamblers all
what make?
crate of wet hens
chalk faces
born into this
le mer et la nuit
…
Teetering arrangements of boxes and bags and words on a page; slumped
stacks of second-hand clothing, art supplies and of text that devolves
into nonsense and riddle; we expand to fill the space that is ours –
the blank page, the raw and reclaimed studio. After accumulation, the
urge is to purge and to reduce
The question of how to create a statement/ an inventory of this
transitional moment – a kind of portrait in which the human body is
removed, or rather replaced/ represented by their belongings.
stacks of second-hand clothing, art supplies and of text that devolves
into nonsense and riddle; we expand to fill the space that is ours –
the blank page, the raw and reclaimed studio. After accumulation, the
urge is to purge and to reduce
The question of how to create a statement/ an inventory of this
transitional moment – a kind of portrait in which the human body is
removed, or rather replaced/ represented by their belongings.
The process is one that when confronted with the teetering pillars and
slumped stacks of one’s personal belongings, encourages/pushes one
towards a type of minimalism – a life reduced to essentials …
Order within chaos – ordering and structuring a space that has been
physically transformed, torn down, reduced to rubble and built up
again.
slumped stacks of one’s personal belongings, encourages/pushes one
towards a type of minimalism – a life reduced to essentials …
Order within chaos – ordering and structuring a space that has been
physically transformed, torn down, reduced to rubble and built up
again.
Photo by Lou Marcellin
Kay Marcellin
