Derivas Urbanas

Derivas Urbanas
“Caminar no nos lleva en principio a ninguna parte luego nos permite llegar a cualquier lugar.”
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18 may 2013

Emily Richardson

La obra visual de Emily Richardson es una magnífica muestra de cómo mediante el arte puede contraer el tiempo sin necesidad de la máquina de Wells.
La estructura de sus trabajos audiovisuales mantiene una tensión límite entre lo que vemos y lo que se oculta, siendo el término omitido, el punto ciego de nuestra forma de ver y comprender el mundo.
Las memorias perdidas, los restos de biografías, la luz y sus cambios imperceptibles, el paisaje, las ciudades, las arquitecturas olvidadas, constituyen materiales de trabajo con los que escribe relatos mudos, poemas visuales, reconstrucciones de imaginarios sutiles. 

Rising 5th. © Emily Richardson 2013






14 jun 2011

Emily Richardson

BLOCK

16mm
12 minutes
2005

Day through night BLOCK is a portrait of a 1960’s London tower block, it’s interior and exterior spaces explored and revealed, patterns of activity building a rhythm and viewing experience not dissimilar from the daily observations of the security guard sat watching the flickering screens with their fixed viewpoints and missing pieces of action.

Block was made over a period of 10 month period in a tower block in south east London from 2004 –05. The film is a portrait of the place that came out of much time spent there.

The security guards office and the bank of CCTV monitors with their random editing patterns and missing pieces of action were used as a starting point in terms of the camera techniques and editing structures employed in the film. All seeing, but seeing nothing at the same time. Working with static camera the fixed shots are repeated and edited together in sequence in a similar way to the CCTV camera recordings that flick from one camera view to another, often disrupting the (visual) ‘narrative’.

The contrast between the exterior and interior of the building, the impersonal common spaces and the personal spaces of the interior of people’s flats gives shape to the portrait.

The soundtrack was built up from recordings made on location at the time of shooting and sounds gathered from various sources and was composed and mixed by Jonah Fox.