Film as Form: Deconstructed + Preconstructed 2018

In the original work 'Film as Form' 2007, the film '2001: A Space Odyssey' by Stanley Kubrick (1968) is visually expanded, disassembled and mapped against archival material and critical writing. Methods of spatial and temporal sequence, index and mapping are tested to generate new ways of seeing the film inspired by Mulvey's idea of the 'pensive spectator' (Mulvey, 2006). The three screen digital work in this exhibition documents the notations, scores and instructions produced as pre-construction for a newly commissioned version of the work to celebrate 50 years since the release of the original film and 10 years since the opening of the public Stanley Kubrick archive at University of the Arts London.

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Notating Space: Scores, Instructions, Timelines
Group Exhibition in the Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, 23-26 January 2018.

An exhibition of work by staff and research students teaching on the Interior and Spatial Design
Programme at Chelsea College of Arts.

In his 1968 Languages of Art, Nelson Goodman states that the combination of drawing and text,
numerals and symbols of the architectural plan ‘counts as a digital diagram and as a score’.

This exhibition explores the analogy between architectural drawing and musical scores or dance notation. These are all forms of ‘instruction’, and it is no coincidence that Goodman was writing at a time when ‘event scores’ were being developed by conceptual artists, composers and performance artists, such as Sol Le Witt, John Cage and Yoko Ono.

Addressing the idea of notating space, the exhibition focus is not on the output itself, but rather generative scores and instructions, from detail drawings to scripted performances, film timelines to choreographed spatial sequences.

Curator: Dr Ken Wilder, UAL Reader in Spatial Design
Exhibitors : Grace Adam, Mike Bell, Marsha Bradfield, Fangyu Cheng, Owain Caruana Davies, Julia Dwyer, Will Fischer, Amritt Flora, Takako Hasegawa, Emma Hunter, Kristina Kotov, Kyun Hye Lee, Peter Maloney, Dr Aaron McPeake, Nicola Murphy, Colin Priest, Sue Ridge, Shibboleth Shechter, Matthew Turner, Dr Ken Wilder.