Celine was very interested for us to go out and find the exsisiting 'Support Structures' in Milan. Being someone new to Milan, I was also very interested and enthusiastic about finding these spaces, just as a reference point for whilst I'm here. In Dundee I am very much involved and part of the artistic community, so for me it is always important to find out/know where they are as centres of possibilties...
Celine put us all into small groups, and then asked us to go searching for both 'physical' and 'invisible' sites of support and interesting places to dispay work, with our surrounding environment being the blank canvas of these discoveries.
This is what we found on our wanders... (Me, Edna & Carlo = ESC)
Bridge= Physical support structure....
An empty/open space, in between two buildings...
The local laudrette- Active for the last 24 years, a definate support structure for the community!
The support structure for a tree...
Modes of Display: Publications= physical structures...
Even your umbrella is a support structure...
The local city bikes...
Even the man selling the umbrella' and goods, represents a 'support structure'...
The local Market...
Wooden Crates= Support Structures
This is a very important structure, it contains a historic archive of all the political publications and manifesto's from the 1960's/70's.
What this expidition made me realise more than anything was that pretty much everything around us is a 'support structure'. The streets we walk on, the bridges that connect space to space, our supermarkets, the local transport, our hairdressers, mobile ojects like tents and umbrellas, even our physical bones are support structues. It was a very interetsing way to approach and see the world, because essentially everything is a possible mode of 'support'. It just revealed to me how we as people create these ways of living, the social anthrolpogy behind human activity and the places we inhabit...
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