Disorientation and Spectacle in Retail Architecture - Softcover

Nayan Kulkarni; Jaspar Joseph-Lester

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954390830 ISBN 13: 9780954390839

Publisher: Artwords Press, 2004

Synopsis

Disorientation and Spectacle traces the development of new retail and entertainment sites through three examples: Bluewater shopping centre (Kent), Canary Wharf shopping centre, and Selfridges department store. The authors ask if disorientation and spectacle can continue to properly engage with the imagination when fantasy has become part of everyday experience. They speculate if the ever-changing demands of a collective imagination have forced a mutation in the way disorientation and spectacle are considered by designers and architects,and ask if the challenges faced by retail and entertainment corporations might offer new possibilities for the wider cultural sphere of the practices of both art and architecture.

Nayan Kulkarni works across media and disciplines. His practice engages with site specificity through photography, architecture and video, using a language of space, structure, light and perception. His current public realm projects include the Belgrave Baheno Peepul Centre (Andrzej Blonski Architects), Bristol Broadmead Development (Chapman Taylor Architects), The Light Observation Group, Optima, Birmingham. Nayan Kulkarni is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.

Jaspar Joseph-Lester’s research addresses the status of illusion in contemporary space. The social, economic and political determinations of retail space have been an important part of this research, formulated through a longstanding engagement with video installation. He has exhibited his work at The British School at Rome, Asprey Jacques Gallery and KX Gallery (Hamburg). Jaspar Joseph-Lester teaches theoretical studies in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Artwords Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0954390830
• ISBN 13: 9780954390839
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 46
• Editor: Ben Hillwood-Harris, Sharon Kivland