Timepieces

Goldsmiths MFA Art Writing students

New writing in repsonse to the Jubilee line
15 June 2010 – 3 December 2010

Part of the following series:

Jubilee Line Series

Julia Calver – Patrick Coyle – Cressida Kocienski – Claire Nichols – Tamarin Norwood – Gemma Sharpe

Timepieces is a collection of new writing by six artists and writers who were invited by Art on the Underground to make works in response to the Jubilee line. Each participant was studying on the MFA Art Writing postgraduate programme at Goldsmiths, University of London, which debates and enacts the diverse intersections between contemporary writing and art.

This project is the outcome of a series of discussions between Maria Fusco, Director of MFA Art Writing and Art on the Underground about how contemporary art writing might be explored in the context of London Underground.
Each contributor set about looking for new ways of seeing and exploring their daily travels. Architectural details, station announcements, public signage and the reading materials of fellow passengers were just some of the starting points for these individual investigations. The result is Timepieces, a collection of new writing and drawings brought together in a booklet and circulated to customers on the Jubilee line, so that they can be read underground in the very places where they were first imagined.

Julia Calver looked over passengers’ shoulders and read lines from their books. She imagined the objects from these passages speeding along the Jubilee line as though it were a wormhole for time travel through outer space.

Patrick Coyle scrambled familiar London Underground announcements and instructions, spelling out improbable stories and making surprising associations.

Cressida Kocienski traced the route of the Jubilee line above ground on foot, photographing the objects she found along the way, which she has described as imaginary instruments for measuring time. For further visit Cressida’s blog

Claire Nichols focused on architectural details and signs at London Bridge Underground station. Her drawings transfer these shapes in space into shapes on paper.

Tamarin Norwood watched passengers passing time on their journeys and rewrote their actions as suggestions for other commuters.

Gemma Sharpe made a number of night-time journeys from London Bridge station after the last Tube. Her text takes the form of a correspondence in which she meditates on the images, thoughts, movements and sounds evoked through such journeys.

Timepieces is part of the series One Thing Leads to Another – Everything is Connected commissioned by Art on the Underground for the Jubilee line, exploring time and its value.

Download the Timepieces leaflet (PDF)

Free Project Notes accompany this Series

Links

Goldsmiths MFA Art Writing

Antepress  – immprint by Part Two students

Julia Calver looked over passengers’ shoulders and read lines from their books. She imagined the objects from these passages speeding along the Jubilee line as though it were a wormhole for time travel through outer space.

Patrick Coyle scrambled familiar London Underground announcements and instructions, spelling out improbable stories and making surprising associations.

Cressida Kocienski traced the route of the Jubilee line above ground on foot, photographing the objects she found along the way, which she has described as imaginary instruments for measuring time. For further visit Cressida’s blog

Claire Nichols focused on architectural details and signs at London Bridge Underground station. Her drawings transfer these shapes in space into shapes on paper.

Tamarin Norwood watched passengers passing time on their journeys and rewrote their actions as suggestions for other commuters.

Gemma Sharpe made a number of night-time journeys from London Bridge station after the last Tube. Her text takes the form of a correspondence in which she meditates on the images, thoughts, movements and sounds evoked through such journeys.

Timepieces is part of the series One Thing Leads to Another – Everything is Connected commissioned by Art on the Underground for the Jubilee line, exploring time and its value.

Download the Timepieces leaflet (PDF)

Links

Goldsmiths MFA Art Writing

Antepress  – immprint by Part Two students

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Visiting Information

Artworks for this project are available to visit at the following stations. Where more detailed visiting information is available, page links have been included in the list below.

Comments

  • What a pleasure it must be to pick up one of these booklets and to find these touching witty and odd takes on life underground. Thanks to all involved.

    mike and meg

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