In City of Tomorrow, Chandigarh's modern architecture is explored through Le Corbusier's early writings on repetition and order. The architect's zealous ideals taken from his 1929 The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning are revisited via the buildings and symbolism of the planned capital city.
ABOUT GAVIN HIPKINS:
"Over the past three decades, Gavin Hipkins has developed a practice in photography and moving image that frequently returns to the intersections of modernism and the post/colonial nation-state by repurposing images and texts. His work addresses the histories of his chosen media as well as the ways in which images have shaped the contemporary world as transmitters and visual manifestations of ideology."
"The period of struggle is over; The period of construction has arrived."
Notes/reflections:
"The period of struggle is over; The period of construction has arrived."
Ideas of a 'ideal city,' being the city in the video...?
"8 hours for work, 8 hours fo recreation." - setting an 'ideal' doctrine or ways in which humans would operate best
Really interesting architectural sites - concreted, solid, unbending, adamant, like the ideas that were being declared through the text by the person - who seemed to have a very clear idea of what was what, and what needed to be done.
The sound adds a really interesting, smooth, industrial vibes, as well as suspenseful-ness.
Makes me think about who this person is, what their authority is, whether i agree with them or not,
- The composition is really beautiful and crisp
What could the artist, Gavin Hipkins be wanting to say/explore through this work? He seems to have compiled the images, text and sound together to create some sort of dialogue between them. - ambiguous
The text seems it could have come from architects, but also scientific as well as political, then shifting into poetic compositions, bordering on philosophical notions on ideas of daily life, as well as ideas of the an ambiguous motif, first the spinning white crystal, and then sculptural structures that resemble some sort of deity.
It is hard to tell whether these images, text and sounds are juxtaposed, or carry some sort of previous relationships.