FOREST ARCHIVE

RETELLING OF A SPATIAL NARRATIVE THROUGH PHYSICAL INTERVENTION DORSET, UK This installation dwells on the subject of uncovering marks, extracting the information recorded by the land and nature. Archaeology is by definition invested in material traces, whilst disciplines such as cultural geography have a history of questioning the relationships between culture and landscape through a materialist lens. They both look to landscapes, buildings, architectural remains, and maps to build a place-based understanding of the human subject. Both disciplines draw lines between the body and materiality, whether inferred from enduring traces or drawn from lived experience. Here, this approach is projected onto a natural environment, where the information that is discovered and recorded creates a narrative of the site in the forest. On Reverse Archaeology: Reverse Archaeology deals with the concept of discovery. This may mean finding something of value just beneath our feet, or something hidden within layers of memory. The process may be physical, or the search may be internal and reflective, or it may exist entirely in the realm of imagination.

Materials

35 mm film (10 min), 3D model, point cloud scans, plaster, latex, wire mesh, soil, string, miscellaneous materials

Context

Research at the Architectural Association

Dimensions

2 km radius