Greyworld. Public art. First aid for urban spaces.
“For the most part, these installations are often displayed in the ill-defined areas of the city, in the grey areas between the functional well-defined zones: the living, the working and leisure spaces. These works would seek to ’short circuit’ both the environmental and social expectations supplied by the surrounding urban envionment, and provide a creative means of expression in the banal and ignored zones of the urban surround…”
Rather beautiful explorations of edge, liminal and non-spaces, and maybe it’s just me, but I really like how they describe their installations in terms of intimacy – “for lovers, for tension, for refuge, for desire” – and intensity – “watch yourself literally melt into the crowd, before bursting into fire, and cruising down the street aflame”. Nice.
The metaphors and rituals of place and time – an introduction to liminality
Bob Trubshaw
“Looking more broadly at ritual events there is at least a moment when the participants are between normal ordered cultural states. This raises the possibility of standing aside from social positions (while increasing the danger of a potentially unlimited series of alternative social arrangements)… Both metaphor and ritual are ways of recognition in which the identifying qualities of one thing are transferred in an instantaneous, almost unconscious, flash of insight to some other thing that is, by remoteness or complexity, unknown to us…” (via)