Human Endeavour visit the Rowner Estate and Harefield Estate.
Human Endeavour have had a day trip along the South coast to the Rowner Estate in Gosport and the Harefield Estate in Southampton.
Rowner Estate. Richard Chivers
Rowner Estate. Richard Chivers
Rowner Estate. Richard Chivers
Harefield Estate. Richard Chivers
Harefield Estate. Richard Chivers.
Harefield Estate. Richard Chivers
Harefield Estate. Richard Chivers
Exhibition RIBA. A History of British Housing.
Homes for all: a history of British housing
A new exhibition traces the history of British mass housing – and has some lessons for developers today, says Hannah Booth. A Place To Call Home: Where We Live And Why runs until 28 April at Riba, 66 Portland Place, London, W1. Free entry.
B Photobook Show. London
Human Endeavour’s finely crafted book dummy for Degeneration will feature as part of the B Photobook Show in London. The show follows on from the A Photobook show last year in Brighton which was an interesting and successful show featuring some excellent photography books. Other artists include Murray Ballard, Harry Watts, Simon Norfolk, John Maclean and a host of other photographers. There is also a panel discussion featuring Ewen Spencer among others.
Human Endeavour has been visiting Southampton.
Human Endeavour has been visiting Southampton.
Harefield Estate. Richard Chivers.
Harefield Estate. Richard Chivers
Harefield Estate. Richard Chivers
Harefield Estate. Richard Chivers
Human Endeavour in Oldham, Sunderland & Middlesbrough
Human Endeavour have been investigating the North East of England and a brief visit to Oldham.
Sholver, Oldham. Simon Carruthers.
Pennyworth, Sunderland. Simon Carruthers
Pennyworth, Sunderland. Simon Carruthers
Pennyworth, Sunderland Simon Carruthers
Wheatley Hill, County Durham. Simon Carruthers
Gresham, Middlesbrough. Simon Carruthers
Gresham, Middlesbrough. Simon Carruthers
Gresham, Middlesbrough. Simon Carruthers
Gresham, Middlesbrough. Simon Carruthers
Gresham, Middlesbrough. Simon Carruthers
Anfield
Human Endeavour collective have finally made it to Liverpool to photograph in the area of Anfield for our ongoing project Degeneration. The whole area is currently being demolished as part of a wider programme of proposed regeneration.
Vanguard Street, Anfield, Liverpool 2011 © Alex Currie
Varthen Street, Anfield, Liverpool 2011 © Alex Currie
Venice Street, Anfield, Liverpool 2011© Alex Currie
Vyrnwy Street, Anfield, Liverpool 2011 © Alex Currie
Brighton Photo Fringe Open 11. 3 Minute OPEN.
Alex Currie, Richard Chivers and Chris Leslie will be presenting their new project ‘The Glasgow Effect’ as part of the 3 Minute Open at the BPF Open 11.
The project which is still in its infancy is a collaboration with Scottish Photographer Chris Leslie who will be creating short videos for the project.
Friday 16th December 6.00pm – 9.00pm
Practitioners will deliver three-minute presentations as part of this PechaKucha-style networking event. Organised with the help of PechaKucha Brighton.
Alex Currie
Richard Chivers
Chris Leslie
A book Show. Workflow Studios. Private View. Friday 2nd Dec. 6 – 9pm.
We are pleased to have been chosen to show our Hand made book dummy for our project Degeneration at the Photobook show at Workflow Studios. http://www.photobookshow.co.uk
Other Artists include
Joan Alexander
Diana Artus
Gordon Ashbridge
Murray Ballard
Alex Bailey & Helen Flanagan
Julian Baron
Kevin Beck
Pierre Bessard
Pogo Books
Antony Cairns
Margarida Correia
Lawrence Daley
Caitlin Duennebier
Jon Dunning
Ramon Eding
Peter Edwards
Human Endeavour
Dan Epthorp
Jason Evans
Virgilio Ferreira
Peter Gates
Stuart Griffiths
Nicolas Haeni
Yoann Hagnere & Viola Korosi
Andy Heller
Bonifacio Barrio Hijosa
Kenji Hirasawa
Fergus Jordan
Shiho Kito
Josef Konczak/Martin Seeds
Espen R Krukhaug
Jason Larkin
Queenie Rosita Law
Chris Linaker
John Maclean
Louise Maher
Bertil Nilsson
Simon Norfolk
Bruno Quinquet
Misha de Ridder
Nick Rochowski
Davi Russo
William Sadowski
Kayne Li Lui Sang
Maria Serrano
Amelia Shepherd
Jess Smith
Ewen Spencer
Lucy Steggals
Aya Takada
Mikel Telleria
Megan Turner-Jones
Harry Watts
Vincent J Stoker. Heterotopia, the tragic fall.
Sometime ago a French photographer Vincent J Stoker contacted us having seen our Degeneration project. Since then i have been following Vincent’s own work with great interest, here Vincent introduces his work with photographs below.
Heterotopia, the tragic fall.
Vincent J. Stoker
Heterotopia is a phenomenological investigation of the ‘other places’. It uses photography to dissect architectural bodies into their fundamental elements and to reach a better understanding of the world we live in.
Hetero : the other, otherness. Topos : the place.
Heterotopias can be defined negatively, by what they are not. Here and nowhere, they are neither real, nor utopian but both at the same time. Places out of all places but still recorded on maps, they are the physical locations of utopias, utopias that have become matter.
“The tragic fall” is my first series of heterotopias.
Architects frustrate Nature by creating ascending shapes. They strive to channel the forces of Nature which tend to flatten everything. The series shows this eternal struggle that even monuments end up losing. The history of these places is the History of our crises, the History of the failure of utopian projects. They, the places reveal the dark hidden parts and cast doubts on autophagous systems that let destroy what they have built themselves. My work is to remember those mistakes, the forgotten losers of History. I give voice to those we don’t listen to. Heterotopia is a testimony to the small ones, former monuments supporting great expectations.
It shows what would happen if mankind disappeared from the planet. Obviously, nature would reassert itself and reclaim its rights. Our civilization would be forgotten almost instantly, covered up with moss.
But the series is also a rise. It is the birth of a new order, the alliance, the improbable match, harmony of Nature and Culture. These places have never been as beautiful as today, in decay. Physics makes art and magnifies architecture. My pictures praise the slow and meticulous work of time, the inspired worker.
These stout and monumental monsters, relic of the past, murmur lessons to our ears. I hear them shout the brevity and fragility of our existence. My ruins have an edification power. Could it be possible to imagine Vanity and the “memento mori” in a more powerful way than the monument in ruin? The other lesson is to see in them an opportunity to make peace with our past. Humanity makes mistakes; this is what must not be forgotten. These terrible mutilations, we will end up liking them.
Behind the dust, the rust and under the rubble, we can sense the architects’ original visions of order and the rigid geometry of the buildings. The shots are framed with an almost mathematic exigency and show decrepit textures, all to try and make you, the viewer, discern the conflict in these places that are falling into chaos and rising with meaning.
Today I’m working on other series of heterotopias, “the utopian bodies”, “the end of History”, “the stored knowledge”…
www.vincent-j-stoker.com
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