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Cottell, Fran and Mueller, Marianne (2016) Pentagon Petal. [Art/Design Item]
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| Type of Research: | Art/Design Item |
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| Creators: | Cottell, Fran and Mueller, Marianne |
| Description: | An installation project by artist Fran Cottell and architect Marianne Mueller reflecting on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground as the dream site for Jeremy Bentham’s experimental panopticon, the real Millbank Penitentiary, a military parade ground and now university campus, outdoor gallery and thoroughfare to Tate Britain. From solitary confinement, to the military organisation of a group as a single unit to today’s neoliberal forms of sociability, the social history of the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground represents a cross section through architecture’s power to orchestrate social modes. The intervention re-enacts a scaled version of the prison's infamous plan, editing and reinterpreting it into a more socially active figure: a flower shaped bench. Each of the six pentagons or petals - originally shaped to facilitate social control and designated for solitary confinement - now invites informal gathering. The intervention plays with ideas of exclusion and segregation while offering a generous place within the larger barren square. This project builds on a series of previous intervention projects by Fran Cottell and Marianne Mueller into domestic and institutional spaces for CGPLondon and the Architectural Association; the focus shifting from a relationship between visitors and inhabitants to between moving and static participation, occupations and activities to more unpredictable conditions and outcomes. |
| Your affiliations with UAL: | Other Affiliations > CCW Graduate School Colleges > Camberwell College of Arts Colleges > Chelsea College of Arts Other Affiliations > Rootstein Hopkins Space Research Projects > Subjectivity and Feminisms |
| Date: | 1 July 2016 |
| Funders: | Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Graduate School Staff Fund, Careers and Employability, Brewers Decorator Centres |
| Related Websites: | https:// www.pentagon-petal.org, https://www.francottell.com, http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2016/7/1/Pentagon-Petal/, http://www.arts.ac.uk/chelsea/business-and-innovation/venue-hire/, http://www.arts.ac.uk/media/arts/colleges/chelsea/images/chelsea---business--innovation/chelsea---venue-hire/Rootstein-Hopkins-Parade-Ground-Chelsea-College-of-Arts.pdf |
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| Related Exhibitions: | House Project for CGPLondon 2001-ongoing, The Relational in Architecture 2011 The Architectural Association, London |
| Related Publications: | PENTAGON PETAL published by Camberwell Press 2016, A book chapter: ‘From House to Square’ with Marianne Mueller for ‘Architecture in Effect, Rethinking the Social’, edited by Jennifer Mack; Sten Gromark, Roemer van Toorn, Sweden, will be published in 2017 |
| Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU 1 July 2016 30 July 2016 |
| Material/Media: | wood |
| Measurements or Duration of item: | Diameter: 8440 mm |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jul 2016 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jul 2016 09:30 |
| Item ID: | 9888 |
| URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/9888 |
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