Separation Anxiety: How can we overcome separation to create community?
Guildhall School for Music and Drama, Barbican Centre, London
8 October 2024
Architecture
Outer Space
Andromeda
Relay
Performance
Public Talk
Guildhall School for Music and Drama, Barbican Centre, London
8 October 2024
Architecture
Outer Space
Andromeda
Relay
Performance
Public Talk
Sites and Situations Research Cluster at the RCA
Adam Kaasa and Amy Blier-Carruthers
How can we overcome separation to create community?
Two buildings stand apart. A myth and a star stand separate, but connected. Pedagogic traditions and hierarchies converge with layered histories and disciplines. Stories and sounds defy their boundedness.
The score:
In some places (like the Barbican) people either feel that they really belong or they feel kept out, partly because they can’t find their way around. It takes work to feel like you can operate in an estate like the Barbican.
In what way is this a purely physical experience, or can it be mapped as a metaphor for hierarchies of culture and education in 21st-century London?
In this walking performance lecture, Amy and Adam stage a spatial and conceptual relay as they pass the baton between their projects, while walking through, and being guided by, the shapes, divisions, histories, connections, and sonic atmospheres of the Guildhall and the Barbican.
Adam Kaasa and Amy Blier-Carruthers
How can we overcome separation to create community?
Two buildings stand apart. A myth and a star stand separate, but connected. Pedagogic traditions and hierarchies converge with layered histories and disciplines. Stories and sounds defy their boundedness.
The score:
- Across
- Under
- Convergence Pt. 1
- Convergence Pt. 2
- Through
- Out
In some places (like the Barbican) people either feel that they really belong or they feel kept out, partly because they can’t find their way around. It takes work to feel like you can operate in an estate like the Barbican.
In what way is this a purely physical experience, or can it be mapped as a metaphor for hierarchies of culture and education in 21st-century London?
In this walking performance lecture, Amy and Adam stage a spatial and conceptual relay as they pass the baton between their projects, while walking through, and being guided by, the shapes, divisions, histories, connections, and sonic atmospheres of the Guildhall and the Barbican.
Separation Anxiety, Public Talk, Sites and Situations Research Cluster, RCA with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.