 PLATFORM
Exhibition: Friday 16 June - Sunday 16 July
A work by Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley for Architecture
Week 2006.
Commissioned by the Architecture Centre and supported by Arts
Council England and the University of the West of England.
Instructions for a Game:
The game board is the City. A case will contain a kit
for a game. The game consists of 70 Platforms and 70 maps. The
moment the Platform is handed over the game begins.
Choose your grid intersection point on the city map. Navigate
your way to this point. Hold, drop, position or discard the Platform
as near to the intersection point as possible. Document the Platform
in position by a photograph, text message or email description.
How to Get In the Game:
Platform was launched during Friday 16 and Saturday 17
June 2006 from a transportable case around Bristol city centre.
Participants were asked to record their journeys. The evolving
documentation will be on display during Architecture Week at the
Architecture Centre until 16 July.
The Object of the Game:
The game will take you on a journey though the city on which you
will negotiate boundaries of the city, the territories of private
and public space, the occupied and uninhabited, the surveyed and
the forgotten. The object of the game is to place a Platform as
near to a map grid intersection point as possible. A Platform
is a model of architectural structure that appears to have no
marked identity. It is open to interpretation and use. There are
70 Platforms, 70 participants and 70 grid points spanning from
the centre to the fringes of the city. Each individual action
of positioning a platform within the city is a small but significant
rupture in a landscape we know as planned and prescribed in its
use. Collectively the action of the participants will create a
new and momentary geography of the city and map the diversity
and the intrigue of our built environment.
The artists:
Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley collaborate on projects
that explore the realm between art, architecture and urbanism.
Their work has been exhibited in Great Britain and New York and
published in the architectural and art press. Current projects
include ‘Howtomakeartinparadise’ an initiative in
response to suburbia with Neville Gabie and Tessa Fitzjohn, a
collaboration with architectural writer Robin Wilson resulting
in a series of publications and interventions, and work for ‘Wig
Wam Bam’, an exhibition curated by Marcus Coates and Claire
Barclay with Plan9 at the Red Lodge during the British Art Show
in Bristol this summer.
Contact:
Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley
07970 943918
mail@m5southbound.com
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