A view through one of the peep holes
Today is the final day that you can get to see Jimmy
Cauty’s “Aftermath Dislocation Principle” at the Chemic Tavern in Leeds.
'Aftermath Dislocation Principle' is described
thus…”Housed in a 40 ft shipping container, The Aftermath Dislocation Principle
(ADP) is a monumental post-riot landscape in miniature. This dystopian model
village is a charred landscape of broken windows, flashing strobes, and
collapsing buildings where only the police and media teams remain in an
otherwise deserted, wrecked and dislocated land – all in 1:87 scale and viewed
through peepholes in the side of the container”.
If you haven’t been to see it do go along tonight. The
40-foot spray-painted container is parked in the pub car park at the back and
you look at the installation through peep-holes that are put in at regular
intervals around the container.
I have posted before on the relevance of making models
in relation to the concept of drawing, see but this particular piece opens out a host
of other issues not least in relation to its location in the Leeds
suburbs, rather than in the grounds of an art institution.There is a long and
particular history of making illusions that can only be seen through peepholes,
such as Van Hoogstraten the 17th century Dutch painter who used
his knowledge of anamorphic perspectives to construct "peepshows" or
"perspective boxes", which like Cauty’s “Aftermath Dislocation
Principle” were viewed through peepholes in the sides of the box like container. I will be posting something on these at some point in the future, as they are an important aspect of the history of uses of illusion in art.
The installation with the top removed
The address is:
The Chemic Tavern
9 Johnston Street
Leeds
LS6 2NG
Travel from Leeds centre out past the university until you get to the
Hyde Park pub. Turn right down Woodhouse Street and go straight down the hill,
the Chemic is on the left just before Woodhouse Street elbows right.
The Jacqueline and Jonathan Geststner collection of paper
peepshows has just been donated to the V&A museum, this is a huge
collection, beginning in the 1820s with Austrian and German peepshows, it
mainly covers landscapes and historical events, not perhaps unlike Cauty’s
giant version, which relies like all these objects on the special feeling we have
when peeping into a closed off world. This feeling is something very special to
us and may even go back to our time of being hunter-gatherers, time spent
silently peeking out between the leaves of a densely foliaged bush or through a
chink in a pile of rocks, there is power in being the unseen observer,
especially when you are the hunter and not the hunted.
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