The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series
Double Lecture and Exhibition Private View
Thursday 13th November 2014 > 18.30 – 20.30
Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]
Exhibition > The Gallery > 14 Nov – 20 Dec 2014
Grimm City – a miniature universe – is a spatial extrapolation of the Fairytales by the Brothers Grimm. Designed and built during a 5-week summer workshop to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the tales, it foretells a future state run by creatures with Grimm-esque attributes of gluttony and greed taken perversely out of context. Whilst being lampoonist and satirical this architectural fairytale draws uncanny parallels with what many believe is the way cities are run today. Corrupt politicians, fraudulent banks, gluttonous churches and a great GDP are common in both the Grimm City and our own cities.
FleaFollyArchitects are spatial-storytellers who use narrative to explore and invent speculative architectural propositions encompassing all scales. Operating across, and blurring the boundaries between the fields of architecture, design, art and installation, they use craft as a key component of their work in trying to bring speculative worlds to the wider audience. FleaFollyArchitects were founded in 2012 by Pascal Bronner and Thomas Hillier who met at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Their work has been published extensively in journals such as Mark Magazine, Blueprint, Icon, Domus and the Architectural Review. They currently teach at University of Greenwich, the Bartlett, and London Metropolitan University.
Dan Walwin
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Dan Walwin studied BA Fine Art in Goldsmiths College, London, and graduated in 2007. From 2012 to 2013 he was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Dan Walwin has participated in many group and solo exhibitions and in the past few years he has been the recipient of several grants and awards.
op (2013) is an HD video of 6’47” length, shown as a loop and rear projected onto an installed screen.