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SPATIAL EXPERIENCE, NARRATIVE & ARCHITECTURE - BYERA HADLEY REPORT 163.0 PRACTITIONERS OF THE IN-BETWEEN3.2 Temporality / Memory & sequenceArchitecture still defines itself though permanence.The major link between film and architecture is time.They are time sensitive mediums.Film as a medium has the ability to capture the lifecycles of architecture and place. It can be usedstrategically to discuss these, and the memories heldwithin a certain building. As with many of Fischer & ElSani’s art projects (such as the aforementioned ‘TheRise’, their film project ‘Spelling Dystopia’ (2009) askshow memory operates, how a site wears its history,both physically and metaphorically. 20“History manifests itself in the diversity of architecturefrom different epochs. A building is a visible remnantand a piece of memory of a certain time. Our workis a permanent pursuit of and negotiation with thetransition of time, or the transition of epochs. Weexplore the historic traces of urban landmarks,monuments and events that embody such atransition” (Fischer & El Sani). 21Fischer & El Sani are interested in how cinema has animpact on locations, how it changes the perceptionof a place and causes a shift in collective memory.Christophe Gérard suggests that architects like totoy with concepts such as sequence and narrative,however there are other phenomena that might beconsidered (as evident in Fischer and El Sani’s work‘Spelling Dystopia’) like adaptation, appropriation andthe blurring and time. 22 With ‘Spelling Dystopia’ theyfocused on the public perception of the uninhabitedisland Hashima near Nagasaki, which has a vividhistory. In the year 2000 it became the film locationof a science fiction blockbuster Battle Royale andcame back into the Japanese consciousness, witha different connotation. 23 The younger generationstarted to know the place mostly from movies,mangas and video games, as an abandoned ghostisland.Through these images the island appears almost asa fantasy, an imaginary playground where variousimages and layers of reality and fiction have alreadygot in a state of mingling. Aided by its appearancein Battle Royale the island has since taken on aghostly, mythic status in the national imagination, afictionalised shift in collective memory. 24PICTURED‘Spelling Dystopia’Exhibition view (top)Film still (bottom)Image source:http://fischerelsani.net/
SPATIAL EXPERIENCE, NARRATIVE & ARCHITECTURE - BYERA HADLEY REPORT 173.0 PRACTITIONERS OF THE IN-BETWEENPICTURED‘Spelling Dystopia’Film stillsImage source:http://fischerelsani.net/
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