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Year 1 | Wunderkammer

Wunderkammer

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Year 1

The installation project is a critical moment in Year 1 Architecture BSc as a collective ethos. This year’s project, titled ‘Wunderkammer’– ‘room of wonder’–combines model making, film and performance to translate the personalities and daily rituals of ten historic characters. Students adapted to constantly shifting between digital and analogue as they transformed a site-specific, physical installation into a series of ten short films. Created all over the globe, these were showcased during a one-day screening event as an alchemy exploring the different rituals, beliefs and ideas conveyed by the characters.

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Year 1

Björk

Björk

The film presents a multi-sensorial journey through the Icelandic landscape from a dream-like perspective, as inspired by Bjork’s daily walk to school. This immersive sequence is delivered through a series of instruments, mechanisms, and projections.

Patti Smith

Patti Smith

Through the lens of her fashion and signature jackets, this film follows three narrative aspects of the celebrated musician’s life; the inner workings of her daily life, her formative years spent in the Chelsea Hotel and the studio, and her domestic years as a mother.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Elsa Schiaparelli

Life of a prominent Italian fashion designer, known for her surrealist collaborations with Salvador Dali (and Chanel’s biggest rival), told in 15 pieces of the tapestry. Each piece created by students in different parts of the world.

Marina Abramović

Marina Abramović

Inspired by the ‘grandmother of performance art’, known for questioning the roles of audience and performer. The project plays with this apparent limitation by stringing together many acts which repeat beginning, climax and resulting action throughout one whole performance arc.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Lévi-Strauss’s idea of structuralism revolutionised our thinking about cultures and societies. Bread is the connector between past and present; traditional and modern; between us all as humans.

Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore

Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore

Exploring the artistic pair’s detailed daily routine and collection of unique 19th century objects, this film delves into the living sculptures' visual and auditory interactions with objects and frequently visited cafés and restaurants throughout the day.

Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Guided by music and light, this project evokes a journey into the oneiric state to preserve our romanticised domestic memories through mapping intangible interactions into objects and landscapes: conversation/food/hygiene/meditation/rest.

Mae C. Jemison

Mae C. Jemison

The diverse lived experience of doctor, dancer, and astronaut Mae Jemison, presented as a journey through space. Key themes are weightlessness and the interaction of fixed and fluid elements.

Miles Davis

Miles Davis

Miles Davis’ rituals narrate spatial restriction and release. The film centres on the critical interaction between fingers and valves: making visual what is only audible.

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei

The film embodies Ai Weiwei, a Chinese contemporary artist and activist. A provocative piece, it captures the artist’s habits, rituals and ideology in its themes, materiality, and production techniques.

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The Bartlett
Summer Show 2021
23 July – 07 August 2021
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