project title
Split locations, split habitation: Cohabitation
project description
Tim Long and Richard Bevan collaborated during 2003 on work in Cardiff and Maesteg using the principles of Psychogeography. Building on the work already completed the artists will produce a video and still images for exhibition in New York during the Psychogeogaphy conflux.
The purpose of the experimental videos is to chart a person’s movement through the built environment around where they live. The footage will then be spliced together, showing two people in different places. More footage will be combined from other locations by other participants later. Still images of the figure in the urban environment will be painted on and displayed in Cardiff as part of the Cohabitation exhibition during October 2004.
The film taken so far, in Maesteg and Cardiff, South Wales and Canterbury, Kent evoke a particular mood. The viewer’s imagination seems to impose a narrative over the figures to explain the camera’s attraction to them as they move around the town and city.
The drifting motion of a journey with no apparent purpose, through urban environments built across several centuries, where the contrasting fabric and topology of two locations separated by two hundred and fifty miles.
Walking around and past the bus stations, railway stations, churches, shops, houses, sports centres and offices…
Robert Burton stated in his Anatomy of Melancholy, better do to no end than nothing’.
name
Tim Long and Richard Bevan