Exhibition 25.11.2022–01.05.2023
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Horror in the Modernist Block
Ikon presents new and recent work by 20 contemporary artists exploring the relationship between architectural modernism and horror.
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EVENT 20.03.2023 / 6.00pm–8.00pm
FREE
Birmingham City University Student Showcase
Architecture and Design postgraduate students from Birmingham City University showcase new work made in response to Horror in the Modernist Block. Devised by arena, a postgraduate unit on the MArch Architecture programme, the research focussed on examining stories in perceived or managed decline of this architectural typology and contested legacies between residents, citizens, and devotees, against the development ambitions of local authorities or private enterprise.
Works include examples of controversial cases such as the now demolished Heygate Estate and the under-threat Central Hill Estate in south London, with the latter designed by Rosemary Stjernstedt, one of Birmingham School of Architecture’s first female graduates.
Students’ responses include video-work, architectural collages, physical castings and playful performances, prompting a discussion on the cultural value the modernist block still plays in society today.
About the artists
Arena is a postgraduate design unit on the MArch Architecture programme exploring the theatricality of the city and designing performative architectures through play, film, and artistic practice.
The unit is led by Alessandro Columbano, senior lecturer and course director of the MArch Architecture programme, and Francis Naydler, visiting lecturer and architect at Morris & Company, London.
Horror in the Modernist Block is supported by Fluxus Art Projects, Embassy of the Netherlands, Freelands Foundation, Italian Cultural Institute and The Modern Institute.
Performance Schedule:
6.20pm: Introduction to BCU arena research unit by Alessandro Columbano
6.25pm: Sufyan Muzaffar and Nicoleta Rugina, The Collapsed Memory of Habitat (2022-2023)
6.40pm: Wiktoria Piotrowksa and Nicholas Morrison, The Glitch (2022-2023)
6.45pm: Raheem Gilligan, Negatives We’ve Been Made To Know (2022-2023)
7.25pm: Sufyan Muzaffar and Nicoleta Rugina, The Collapsed Memory of Habitat (2022-2023)
7.40pm: Wiktoria Piotrowksa and Nicholas Morrison, The Glitch (2022-2023)
7.45pm: Raheem Gilligan, Negatives We’ve Been Made To Know (2022-2023)
8.00pm: Close
FREE
Event Date
Monday 20 March 2023
6.00pm–8.00pm
6.00pm–8.00pm
Event Details
Free, suggested donation £5
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First Floor Galleries
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Ikon Gallery
1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS
Image Credits
1. Our perception of the block is cold (2022-2023). Courtesy Credit: Raheem Hussein Gilligan 2. Horror in the Modernist Block (2022), installation view. Image courtesy Ikon. Photographer, Stuart Whipps. 3. Horror in the Modernist Block (2022), installation view. Image courtesy Ikon. Photographer, Stuart Whipps. 4. Horror in the Modernist Block (2022), installation view. Image courtesy Ikon. Photographer, Stuart Whipps. 5. Horror in the Modernist Block (2022), installation view. Image courtesy Ikon. Photographer, Stuart Whipps. 6. Horror in the Modernist Block (2022), installation view. Image courtesy Ikon. Photographer, Stuart Whipps.
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Exhibition tour with Lucy Mounfield
Join Lucy Mounfield, Assistant Curator at Ikon, for a tour of the exhibition Horror in the Modernist Block.