Clive A Brandon
 

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My work explores our everyday experience of Architecture and public space, through walks and interventions in the city, which I record in films, books, photographs, paintings and collage.

Walking and moving through the urban environment and observing, cataloguing, and intervening with its states of flux and change are what propels my work. It is about looking and noticing, and walking is one of the best ways to do this as it allows you to stop, pause, and control the pace of your movement.

My practice is an expansive investigation into the mundane and everyday, but I am also interested in how we imagine and dream beyond the everyday, and how Utopian and Sci-Fi fantasies are played out through ideology and architecture.

An aim of my practice is to focus on the things that are regarded as banal and everyday within the city, things that don’t call attention to themselves, the things that are never mapped. I am also interested in how the city is changing and developed over time. My work takes a sometimes nostalgic and sometimes cynical stance towards past, present and future developments in the city.

This is explored in recent projects, which include Festival, a multi-layered film constructed from Super 8/VHS footage and stills of the Festival of Britain/South Bank and Olympic construction site, Field Studies, an ongoing series which involve a walk and artists book cataloguing a mundane area or location, and a series of Olympic Interventions, around the 2012 construction zone.


     
 All images on this site ©Clive A Brandon 2008