A Slashstroke re-interpretation of an unextraordinary South Kensington bedsit creates a new dimension, a flexible conceptual interactive environment.

Slashstroke in  collaboration with artists/designers Mireille Fauchon, Jasleen Kaur and Harriet Anstruther  invited the public to explore an altered space and to participate in creating images that in turn became part of the narrative of an unextraodinary space explored over a week. The images below show the projects development from inception onto an oragnic rolling abstract narraitive defined by the input of  those who passed through. 150 people helped crate the images, gradually filling the walls with negative and positive versions of themselves.

The purpose: to explore creative interaction, to connect abstract thinking to possible creative solutions, to allow the public to play with associations and free imagination, to make things possible.

The result: collaborative, combined, positive interaction and production. Many hands make interesting work.

Spacewarp is produced by Harriet Anstruther Studio

THE EASY BIT, THE PLANNING.

 

POSITIVE NEGATIVES, POSITIVE NEGATIVES, Slashstroke anti photoshoot in which participants had their picture taken and then cut them selves out and left their image somewhere in the space. With the negative space left over they created a collage of sorts combining other altered images of the space.

PRINTING SPACEWARP,  A story begins, artist  Mireille Fauchon kicks of the abstract narrative through abstraction and association, whats starts out as linear mark making based on the imagined floor plan of the space gradually developed into a darker more surreal story. Hands becomes walls become people become new spaces and new worlds.

PEOPLE WARP POWER / SPACES IN FLUX

BELL / BABY/ FACE

POLONA BY THE PHONE, THE PERSON THAT MAKES THINGS HAPPEN.

EVERYTHING ALL OVER THE PLACE

IN THE SPIRIT OF ALL THAT CAN BE WARPED JASLEEN KAUR‘S RE APPROPRIATED OBJECTS ARE INFUSED INTO THE SPACE AND THE WARP PLAY.

Carrying on the abstract narrative of an unextrodinary space, Harriet Anstruther’s specially curated rooms added another dimension and extension to the rolling development of the space.

OPENING NIGHT MANIFESTOS, MANI VERTIGO LIVE PERFORMANCE SINGING AND PAINTING, HER INTERPRETATIONS AND REACTION TO SPACEWARP.

AND SO IT CONTINUES, PEOPLE, HANDS, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SPACES AND THE ABSTRACT STORY GOES ON.

The walls, ceilings, doorways, the general space, everything becomes somewhere to leave a mark. As the people dotted themselves around the building the images they created with the negative space from their photographs gradually start to form in to an extraordinary  rambling narrative of  existing in spaces and worlds that never existed.