A site responsive exhibition across five sites in association with London College of Fashion.
Large scale installations across 5 campuses dedicated to the buildings as the design school moved to a single site in East-bank Stratford. The exhibition grew out of the psycho-geographical, the ghosts of staff and students past and the multifarious skills that lay embedded within the walls.
Using original and archive film, field recordings, oral testimonies, archival object , found and recycled materials the show celebrated the richness and diversity of the school’s long history from the early 20th century to the present day.
(building 1) This is one of a series of films made for Love Letters to the Buildings. A site responsive exhibition across five sites for London College of Fashion. It is a farewell to the buildings as the university moves to a single site in East-bank Stratford. The farewell encompasses the psycho-geography, memory and ghosts left behind after decades of creative thinking, artisan training embedded in the studios and workshops, interaction and collaboration of the people that have walked through the corridors.
John Prince’s Street: (building 2) site’s focus is the psycho-geography, purpose built, brutalist, celebration of the space, the layers of skill, archive in digitised and analogue imagery. Interviews with technical staff , alumni and academics, roots in memory and ghosts of the building. The ephemeral nature of a student’s time here alongside many of the teaching staff, who are perpetual.
The solidity of the building. Once permanent now also evaporating with the memory of a space…
KlangHaus 