Our team worked all hours for just over a week to rejuvinate the damp & dark ground floor gallery space to for the week-long Revisiting Utopia show.
Saturday 30 June 2012
Revisiting Utopia: Installation
The Revisiting Utopia exhibition takes place in an empty building located in the very heart of Preston. Formerly PAD Gallery (and before that, a central Post Office and council offices), the three-storey building has been closed for over two years due to large funding cuts in the arts - another example of abandoned architecture in an age of austerity.
Our team worked all hours for just over a week to rejuvinate the damp & dark ground floor gallery space to for the week-long Revisiting Utopia show.
Our team worked all hours for just over a week to rejuvinate the damp & dark ground floor gallery space to for the week-long Revisiting Utopia show.
Thursday 7 June 2012
Revisiting Utopia Exhibition: Call for Submissions
Revisiting
Utopia – Open exhibition
Tuesday 10th – Sat 14th
July, 2012
Preston City Centre
Preston City Centre
Call
for submissions:
To coincide with the one-day symposium, Revisiting Utopia: Modernist Architecture in
the Post-regenerate City, In Certain Places is organising an open
exhibition of artworks inspired by modernist buildings in Preston, such as the
city’s iconic bus station.
The artworks will be shown in an exhibition
in the Old Post Office, previously home to PAD Gallery, just off Market Square.
Artwork can take any form, including painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture
or publication.
Anyone is welcome submit their artwork, as
long as it has been inspired by an example of modernist architecture in
Preston.
To submit your work for selection: Please
e-mail up to 5 jpeg images and/or a website URL of your artwork to: revisitingutopia@gmail.com by midnight on Thursday 28th June.
Selection will take place on Friday 29th
June and successful artists will be contacted soon after.
The handing in day for all the artwork will
be Saturday 7th July.
Artwork will need to be ready for display
and all successful artists will be sent details of how to ensure this.
Please note - artworks will not be insured
by Preston City Council, however the exhibition will be invigilated at all
times.
Revisiting Utopia: Modernist Architecture in the Post-regenerate City
Tuesday 10th July
University of Central Lancashire/Preston Bus Station
This
one-day symposium will bring together architects, artists, urban planners and
people with an interest in the future of cities, to examine the role of
architecture in an age of austerity. Employing Preston’s iconic bus station as
a case study, the event will explore the Modernist principles that informed the
construction of the building during the late 1960s and discuss the
architectural impact of recent urban regeneration schemes, such as the planned
re-development of Preston city centre that threatened to demolish the bus
station. Examining issues of environmental sustainability and the
significance of local knowledge, the event will ask to what extent the utopian
ideals of Modernism, and the buildings they inspired, might still be relevant
within today’s urban landscape.
The
symposium will feature talks by architecture writer and Guardian journalist
Owen Hatherley and architect and author Irena Bauman, as well as a chance for
delegates to share their own views during a panel debate. The day will
also include a bus ride and tour of Preston Bus Station, and a chance to view a
new exhibition of some of the many artworks inspired by this distinctive
building.
Preston
Bus Station was designed by Keith Ingham of Building Design Partnership, and is
an example of Brutalist Architecture. Completed in 1969, it has 80 bus bays and
is the largest bus station in the UK. The building includes a
multi-storey car park on the top, and it is linked to other parts of the city
centre via subways and an elevated walkway. The building, which continues
to make a profit, has been threatened with demolition for over ten years, as
part of city centre redevelopment plans.
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