This is from a series of paper houses that I made which involved the notion of destruction. The paper houses (based on places I have lived) were painstakingly constructed by hand and then destroyed in a performance on the opening night of an exhibition at Area 10 in April 2008. This series was the beginning of my interest in fragile structures and explored the notion of artistic control, in that I had to let go of my work and allow it to be changed by others. The only 'instruction' the performers were given was to change the structure using the domestic implement they were given. The performance was documented through photographs, and the resulting 'disaster structures' were displayed for the rest of the week-long show.
At this time I also made a film of a paper house being destroyed by commuters on their way home on the tube. You can see it with some of the other films it was screened with at The Ritzy in Brixton, at this YouTube link. My 2 minute film is at 7mins 35 secs into the reel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=ObXIf1TXVgo
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