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The rogue and the propositional: the work of Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley

Mosley, Jonathan; Warren, Sophie

Authors

Sophie Warren



Abstract

Our practice is based on a mutual contamination of art and architectural processes and concerns. We continually and incrementally shift our position in relation to these disciplines, testing, playing and ‘worrying’ at their borders and intersections.

We respond to architectural and city space; the way that it is occupied, adapted, perceived and regulated. An insistence on back and forth, observation of places on the point of change and an examination of aspirations for these environments alongside realities initiate the terms of our engagement. Our work seeks to provoke the imaginary, introducing an ‘other-world’ of play, resistance and dream to each situation encountered. The work is propositional, sometimes realized, sometimes remaining as open invitations for action by the viewer, sometimes forming models or blueprints for another scale or condition of realization. We use text, event, still and moving imagery, installation and construction to construct situations, an informal architecture of possibility, moving between material fact and the fiction of our imagination.

Citation

Mosley, J., & Warren, S. (2008, December). The rogue and the propositional: the work of Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley. Presented at Dartington College of Arts Visiting Practitioner lecture series, Dartington College of Arts, Devon

Presentation Conference Type Lecture
Conference Name Dartington College of Arts Visiting Practitioner lecture series
Conference Location Dartington College of Arts, Devon
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Keywords rogue play, speculative architecture, art
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1020522