Waterworks
Park and Improbable landmarks animation, Installation shot
Waterworks
Park,
Acoustic foam, plastic plants
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improbable
landmarks 2010
belfast exposed,
belfast
curated by karen downey
'Improbable Landmarks' is a body of work, which acts as a close
reading of parts of North Belfast. The work uses Belfast Exposed’s
extensive archive as a starting point. Elements in the installation
include an acoustic foam model of the Waterworks Park a very recognisable
city landmark accompanied by a video, an animations and a ‘script’ drawn
from the archive.
The park is a complex site with various layers of activity and
users from families to fishermen to dog walkers to glue sniffers,
which can render it idyllic or threatening depending on the time
of day. The flash animation comprises of drawings made mainly from
the anonymous images found in the archive but also includes some
of the artist’s own photographs. Imagery includes domestic
spaces, sites no longer in existence and incomplete sites. The
script, in the form of a wall banner, makes reference to how Belfast
Exposed archive is catalogued.
Waterworks Park, detail
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Video detail |
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