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Abandoned roof tile factory
After coming out of the oven, the roof tiles go into these long, ventilated chambers for drying and cooling. Closeable doors used to seal these, but were nowhere to be found. The rusty, broken hinges are still visible.
JESSICA FLOREZ
3/16/2012
A Void with Humanity is a mixed-used, mixed-income project proposed for the site that was previously home to the Pruitt Igoe (PI) public housing complex. Void focuses on addressing three of the problems that led to the gradual deterioration and ultimate demolition of PI: Lack of Language, Territory, and Respect for Life.
When poverty is seen as immoral and housing as the only solution to such complex problem, low-income individuals are treated as “projects” requiring isolation and control. Stripped of a sense of ownership, residents lack the tools of individual expression found in communal activities, which combined with discomfort often leads to violence against oppressive norms.
The only way to redeem PI’s haunted, contested site is not by ignoring its past, or by indulging in nostalgia, but by building a future full of that which was present, yet not always given expression, at PI: Humanity.
Void, a public park surrounded by live-workshop residences, is injected with activities reflective of three particular tensions characteristic of the human condition: Sacred/Mundane, Past/Future, Individual reflection/Collective expression. They are found throughout a metaphorical journey that starts with a Cultural Heritage Center, continues through a local marketplace, past interactive canvases, and ends with an Invention Park facing the Missouri river.
The Cultural Heritage Center is accessed from the roof through stairs shaped as a clock marking the time the last PI’s building was demolished. It includes historical exhibits, a public library, and community spaces.
The Marketplace encourages residents to make use of communal kitchens, workshops, and vendor carts to produce/exchange goods and services. Interactive canvases placed throughout the walk invite citizen expression.
The Invention Park is a ribbon-shaped roof that points towards the sky, celebrating the sacredness of life while sheltering spaces outfitted to promote inventiveness, knowledge, and reflection.
Touching The Void // Rehearsals Rehearsals
What happens when you look death squarely in the face, and how do you find the strength to crawl back towards life?
Joe Simpson's memoir Touching the Void, an international bestseller and BAFTA-winning film sensation, charts his struggle for survival on the perilous Siula Grande mountain in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
The Lyceum’s Artistic Director David Greig brings his award-winning writing skills to the first stage adaptation of this nail-biting adventure, rich in psychodrama and suspense. Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic, Tom Morris (The Grinning Man, War Horse, Swallows & Amazons), lends his visionary directing style to the show.
A Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Bristol Old Vic, Royal & Derngate, Northampton & Fuel co-production.
CAST
Fiona Hampton Sarah
Edward Hayter Simon
Patrick McNamee Richard
Josh Williams Joe
CREATIVE TEAM
Writer/adaptor David Greig
Director Tom Morris
Designer Ti Green
Lighting Designer Chris Davey
Composer & Sound Designer Jon Nicholls
Movement Director Sasha Milavic Davies
Casting Director Jill Green CDG/Amy Beadel
Assistant Costume Designer & Costume Supervisor Emma Cains
Assistant Director Evan Lordan
Photography: Geraint Lewis
Images taken at Bristol Old Vic
Marché Gare
15/02/2017
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A tyre awaits it's fate.
Alone, on a ledge, above the unknown. Touching the Void -
Touching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates's disastrous and nearly fatal climb of Siula Grande (6,344m) in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
The book won the 1988 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature[1] and the 1989 NCR Book Award.
In 2003, fifteen years after it was first published, the book was turned into a documentary film of the same name, directed by Kevin MacDonald. The film won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the 2003 BAFTA Awards [2] and was featured at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.[3]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touching_the_Void
Void -
a. An empty space.
b. A vacuum.
2. An open space or a break in continuity; a gap.
3. A feeling or state of emptiness, loneliness, or loss.
I first started to take photos to get credit for a class. Sometimes I still do. But majority of the time, I take photos to dig a little deeper into myself, reflect my feelings, show my interpretations of things to the public.
I’ve been in love with art since I was in preschool, first drawing pictures of horizons, cats, and snowmen. I advanced to kindergarten and tried drawing people; the knees and elbows on them were sometimes bigger than the heads. In second grade, I found a flute in my attic, and I attempted to teach myself how to play until fourth grade where I could join the school band. Once I joined and learned to play properly, I dove into music and fell in love, attempting to play music I could get my hands on. And then in an eighth grade art class, I was drawing once again. It was a self portrait, properly proportioned, and everyone told me it looked great. I was almost done with it, I just had to finish some shading and coloring it with oil pastels. And then one morning, brushing my hair, huge clumps of it were coming out in the brush. Four days from then it was completely gone. My long hair, one of my favorite things about me, was stripped from me completely. I felt like my beauty, identity, health, pride, and happiness was gone. And then I went to art class two weeks later. My art teacher and I looked at it, and she asked me what I wanted to do. With no words, I ripped off my forehead, bangs, hair, parts of my shoulders, and drew, colored, and pasted the top of my head and turned it in. And that’s when I started to see the deeper things in life, find the real meaning behind the art I love. Photography has been a great way to capture this love.
When I take a photo, I try to aim to have each subject each have various different meanings behind them, whether it be for just me, certain viewers, or the general public. I want each photo to create some kind of emotions for the viewer to play with in their mind and heart. Emotions do a lot to a person. They can make someone smile, or it can make someone break down in tears. Other things can do this too, such as words. A favorite quote of mine by a very famous artist today, Taylor Swift, says “Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together.” That is a huge part of what I believe in, and I do like to build my photos off of words, whether that be to a song lyric, a quote, or a snarky comment said in the hallway. People have a tendency to say things with absolutely no thought, or choose not to say something because of over thought. But these things can influence so much, and no matter what’s said it’s going to do something, and I want to show viewers that.
For my self portrait project, everything is symbolic. It is very simple. A bed, a mirror, a bird cage, and me. But each of these objects can be interpreted many different ways, and with the symbolism I invite the viewers of the photos to interpret it how they can, and try to relate it. I chose symbolism for my self portrait because I have been through a lot of painful things in the 15 years I've been alive. Neglect, ridicule, sickness, depression, solitude, and not fitting in. Some things I show, and others I hide. But when some significant words or objects remind me of these feelings and experiences, a lot of them show up again, sometimes stronger than before. My alter-ego is based off the words “you’re digging yourself into a hole.” At one point in your life, you’re going to be in a lot of trouble that’s hard to get out of, and you never want to show the fact that you're in trouble. It suggests weakness and fear to the rest of the world, so we bury it away, and have a really hard time getting out after that.
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