#found spaces

Once, this machine shaped metal and men shaped their lives around it.

Now it stands silent, a monument to work, to exhaustion, to the kind of strength that leaves marks on everything it touches.

I love places like this: where the past hasn’t been polished away, where rust is allowed to tell the story of what a place once did and who it once needed.

(Photo: d.)

Interesting reading on material and historical thickness in architectural space analyzed especially from the perspective of phenomenology. Also, the bibliography is definitely worth checking out.

Shhhh.  Let's not talk about the fact that I started this meme weeks ago, mkay?  I really should just queue these responses...

8. Foundations: Places of Spiritual Significance – Any locations that you believe to be intrinsically holy?

I live a couple of blocks away from a lake.  There's a highway built along the shore, and that whole stretch of road just has a beautiful energy to it.  But there's one particular spot close by my building that I love more than anywhere else.

Right then Photo Ghosters, here's the scoop....

Photo Ghost Leeds is a new loosely-formed visual art collective in Leeds, looking to do something a bit different. 

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We want YOU to put on art exhibitions in public found spaces. This can be a photo exhibition but it doesn't have to be, we'd welcome any art medium including performance.

You can use any public space, the more outlandish or unexpected, the better. We're talking everything from an easily accessible public park to a Banksy-esque takeover of a corner of the Leeds City Museum. All we ask is that your exhibition be in the greater Leeds area. 

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Once you install your exhibition, the photo ghost element comes in. We want photographs! Not just of your exhibition, but of people's reactions, and if you can catch them unaware, that's all the more fun. 

To submit to us, describe your exhibition and how it went and possibly throw in an image, and voilà! Please note that your submission will appear publicly on the blog.

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Once we have enough submissions, we will organise and curate our own Photo Ghost Leeds exhibition. The exhibition will consist of as many of your originally exhibited artworks as possible, along with the photographs you took. Photos can be digital, film, instant, whatever you fancy. And of course an artist can collaborate with a photographer. 

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Any questions? Ask!

Want to submit? DO IT!

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We hope this sounds like good fun.... Stir it up! Get involved! Get OUTSIDE!