More than 50 students,
from Fine Art and Architecture at the University of Newcastle and Newcastle
College, formed two groups of builders who constructed and de-constructed
two identical shells of House simultaneously for 22 hours. The shells
were built out of bricks and mortar up to first floor level and juxtaposed
with each other in rotational symmetry. The project was synchronized so
that the construction and de-construction was choreographed sequentially:
the opposite segments of the shells slowly moved around each other until
House was completed.
The whole project was recorded using a unique process. Namely through a single time lapse video recording and five long exposure photographs which were taken by using specially constructed pinhole cameras strategically placed in the exhibition space. The photographs reveal the only complete view of the two overlaid shells of House. House explores the relationship between process, documentation and artwork as well as the changing spatial experience of a time-based architectural structure.
