installation project- gaming house, Bartlett, UCL
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Uploaded by kacprfso on Dec 8, 2009
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London. 2009
This installation piece explores the illusion of control associated with gambling and is named after the two games Hazard and Faro, played in The Gaming House, Plate 6 of Hogarths Rakes Progress. Both are a game of chance and those who play are unaware of what the outcome may be.
At this point in the painting, we see Tom on the point of derision having just lost his fortune. His manic state is framed by two figures; to his right, a man elated by his winnings and to his left, one whose loss engulfs him in hopeless despair. The three are separated by the private emotions they display, yet at the same time connected in the public space by the choice they have made to gamble. It is this irrational choice and the belief that they are in control of their fate, that shape their experience of a narrowed and distorted vision of reality; none have noticed the smoke that curls up behind them signalling the eminent destruction of the club.
What initially drew us to the hedge is the manner in which it exists as a permeable screen; it is both a connection and a separation between Walpole Park and Pitzhanger Manor. Those who walk past it, like Tom and the gamblers in the painting, are unaware of the scene beyond it. The three adapted periscopes that line the hedge were designed to exploit the pockets of space within it, exposing details on the other side that would not ordinarily be visible. As with gambling, the viewers are given the choice to engage in our game of seeing and invited to try and control their own fate in our game of chance.
Gaming House group:
amy begg, kacper chmielewski, nichola czyz, ivie egonmwan, roma gadomska-miles, david hawkins, jeremy judge, yoonjin kim, celestria kimmins, seth pimmlot, melody sin, tim wu
film by kacper
music: (hed)pe- novus ordus clitorus
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