Here’s a slideshow of the SuperWindowTable being ‘taken to the people‘ – assembled in the Wellington Pub in the heart of Garston Village.
[Two smartly dressed studenty-types start assembling the table, and they're joined by a local regular in his lesisurewear as he's on his way back from the lavs. He helps out by holding a [...]
Some footage from when the SuperWindowTable was ‘taken to the streets’. This is just a tester/teaser/provisional edit. [Proper edit in the pipeline.]
Luckily my good mates from undergrad Mike and Mark were able to help out, as Mark was up from London for the weekend. Mark used to be a bit [...]
Last night the SuperWindowTable made it’s debut in the Wellington Pub in Garston. The ‘provisional construction’ brought together some important themes in my project [art, tables, pubs, community engagement, beermats]. It was the feature at an “Anything – Special Edition” night organised by Mike Carney. Mike had done some posters and publicity for the event, [...]
For the past two days we’ve been doing a Studio Six / Studio Two joint workshop, with Berlin architect/academic Mathias Heyden. It was about “A collaborative investigation on social and economical, political and cultural implications within designing the built environment”.
Central to Heyden’s discussion were the theories of Joseph Beuys, an artist who was famous for [...]
Looks like Mike has got things covered in Garston while I’m back in Sheffield. He’s kindly put together a poster for friday’s “Anything – Special Edition” night at the Welly, which he’s going to put up around the pub. That’s ‘interdependence’.
Yesterday afternoon, Garston’s bastion of the avant-garde Alex Corina phoned me and kindly invited me to an evening sioree at View Two art gallery on Liverpool’s famous Matthew Street. The ‘independent’ gallery is owned by architect Ken Martin, who’s also the architect working on the Artistic Republic of Garston’s Embassy building. It was a good [...]
Last night I met up with Mike Carney in the Wellington Pub (‘The Welly’) in Garston. Mike’s a Garston-based designer who’s involved with the Artistic Republic of Garston project, working on the Embassy building. Since November he’s been trying to start something positive in Garston, by running a night called “Anything” at the Welly. Described [...]
This Sunday the “Super Window Table” was taken to the streets. It went to meet the “Super Lamb Banana” in the city centre, as well as gracing the mean streets of Garston Village. It was a kind of guerilla “public art” installation. I was hoping the “street furniture” might provoke a bit of banter with [...]
Here the “Super Window Table” is shown in context on the streets of Garston, to indicate possible sites for architectural intervention.
Exploring the interdependence/independence relationship of towns like Nowa Huta, Sheffield, and Garston, Super Window Table is an example of four identical components that work interdependently, to form an independent ‘reciprocal frame’ structure. Each component supports, and is supported by each other. Like the ‘housing’ and the ‘industry’, the components are useless on their own, but [...]
Don’t Believe The Hype – Three Tables Three Cities (DV, 8 mins, 2007)
Documenting Three tables in three cities.
Nowa Huta, Krakow, Poland. Kelham Island, Sheffield, UK. Garston, Liverpool, UK.
