FutureEverything - winner of the Lever Prize 2010

The Production of Space - Roddy Hunter

Civil Twilight - Sun-bleached / Un-bleached Maps of Baghdad and Los Angeles
Laserjet print

Civil Twilight: Sun-bleached / Un-bleached Maps of Baghdad and Los Angeles’ emerged from the art research work ‘Civil Twilight (IV): auto-agora’, a performance/manoeuvre consisting of four three hour walks along Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles over corresponding periods of sunrise and sunset in Iraq between 11-12 April 2003. In preparation for this work, I studied and then digitally superimposed aerial photographs and maps of both cities upon each other. I printed two copies on a domestic inkjet printer and unintentionally left one on my windowsill for one year following my return from Los Angeles where it became bleached by the sun.

Civil Twilight: Psychogeographical Drawings of the Plaça de Catalunya
Pencil and pen on paper

‘Civil Twilight: Psychogeographical Drawings of the Plaça de Catalunya’ emerged from the art research work ‘Civil Twilight (II): The Failure of the Plaça de Catalunya’, a performance/manoeuvre consisting of six three hour walks in and around the Plaça de Catalunya, Barcelona over periods of sunrise and sunset in between 24-27 October 2002. The ‘failure’ referred to the social segregation effected by the division of the square into three concentric circles that also seemed to segregate users of the square along ethnic and class lines. The drawings were made in a notebook while sitting in the same part of the square at two different points in time: at 19:15 hrs, Saturday 26 October and then at 07:20, Sunday 27 October. They record the varying effects of this urban environment as central to an understanding of this space.

That Which Is … Recording
DVD

‘That Which Is … Recording’ emerged from the art research work ‘That Which Is …. ’, a performance exploring notions of organic and inorganic architectural space and structure through live and mediated presence. This video work is an edited loop of the recorded output created and shown during the original three hour performance on 20 February 2010 in Space 109, York as part of ‘The Sixth National Whippit Night’ curated by Victoria Gray and Nathan Walker. Much of the work consists of cutting the shape of a decagonal star into the surface of copies of drawings by Le Corbusier.

Understanding the Production of Space (Skirting)
Projection

‘Understanding the Production of Space (Skirting)’ belongs to a new body work inspired by readings of Henri Lefebvre’s ‘The Production of Space’ which among other things concerns relationships of representation and actuality between social, physical and mental spaces. ‘Understanding the Production of Space (Skirting)’ is a site-related slide projection which juxtaposes, relocates and re-projects an overlooked image from a domestic space onto another.

Untitled (The Production of Simulacrum)
4 x large format photographic prints

Untitled (The Production of Simulacrum)’ belongs to a new body work inspired by readings of Henri Lefebvre’s ‘The Production of Space’ which among other things concerns relationships of representation and actuality between social, physical and mental spaces. ‘Untitled (The Production of Space)’ is a site-related series of large format photographic prints investigating the production of simulacrum in leisure environment.