The next event in the Artist's Residency programme at LSE Archives takes plans on Friday 10 May. This is a rare opportunity to see Patrick Keiller's film "The Dilapidated Dwelling". This is in conjunction with the LSE Cities Programme and marks a common interest in social investigation and living in the city. All are welcome.
Sue Donnelly, Archivist
British Library of Political and Economic Science
10 Portugal Street
WC2A 2HD
Tel: 020 7955 7947
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Art at LSE and the Cities Programme present:
The Dilapidated Dwelling - a film by Patrick Keiller
Friday 10 May, 6pm at the London School of Economics and Political Science,
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
99 Aldwych, London WC2
Free (please arrive early to ensure a seat). Patrick Keiller will discuss his work after the screening.
The Dilapidated Dwelling (78mins, beta sx, 2000) is an examination of the predicament of the house in the UK. A fictional researcher (with the voice of Tilda Swinton) returns from a 20-year absence in the Arctic to find that, though the UK is one of the most electronic of the advanced economies, its houses are the most dilapidated in Western Europe. The film includes archive footage of Buckminster Fuller, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Archigram and Walter Segal, and interviews with Martin Pawley, Saskia Sassen, Doreen Massey, Cedric Price and others.
'A few years ago, it occurred to me to explore the predicament of the house in advanced economies. At the time, this seemed an unfashionable subject. The definitive experiences of modernity, or postmodernity, seemed to involve movement. To stay at home (as, for various reasons, I was increasingly inclined to do) seemed to be to marginalise oneself, despite the home's being increasingly a place of work, and increasingly open to electronic communications. The physical fabric of the house was even more problematic. In the UK, most consumer items - food, domestic appliances, cars and so on - had become cheaper, either as a result of new technology, or of shifting production to lower-wage economies, or both, but the cost of housing went on increasing. The housing stock was ageing and not generally in very good condition. New houses were comparatively few, and were mostly reduced versions of the houses of fifty or a hundred years ago. Was some consumerist innovation about to challenge this, or is there a kind of opposition between the house and present-day developed economies?'
- Patrick Keiller
The film is presented by the Cities Programme and Art at LSE and is introduced by Ruth Maclennan, artist-in-residence in the Archives of the Library at LSE. Ruth Maclennan's residency is supported by the Leverhulme Trust.
For more information please contact Ben Eastop, Art at LSE, on 020 7955 6483 or mobile 07803 725 706. email: [log in to unmask]; or Ruth Maclennan, on 020 7852 3631, email: [log in to unmask]
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