Space, Place, the Ephemeral
A place exploration project using 3D architectural scanning software to create ethereal, ephemeral style point cloud scans of Travelodge spaces. This year-long project aimed to investigate how people inhabit and experience temporary spaces; with particular interest in hotel rooms and the large temporary accommodation chain ‘Travelodge’.
Large-scale audio and visual installation using digital projections of the point cloud scans and audio extracted from each individual room as the inhabitants exist temporarily in the space.
In This Room You Stand (2019)
In This Room You Stand (2019) is an interactive, immersive installation which was showcased at the Ambika P3 gallery space in Baker Street London as part of the University of Westminster degree show ‘Nascent’. As part of a larger collection of interactive works in the final show, In this Room You Stand was a visual and audio interactive installation portraying large scale projections around (3) screens which could be walked into and around by the audience. Participants were encouraged to stand inside the space and listen to the audio via individual headphones; making each experience a personal interpretation of the work.
The conception of this large scale installation is inspired by the themes of Space, Place and the Ephemeral, and how people interact with the spaces and places in which they exist. This particular work was heavily inspired by the anthropological text by Marc Augé ‘Non Places, Introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity.’ The concept of non-place in particular heavily inspired the continuing concept that underpins this piece. Hotels, Air BnB, Motels, Travelodge, Premier Inn were some of the spaces the artist condoned as the modern interpretation of non-place; a place in which we pass through and exist in an ephemeral and transitional state; transcendent and impermanent.
(3) projections each split from a single rotating video encompassing a total of 15 Travelodge hotel rooms; each of them varying slightly in composition, layout, furniture positioning. As each of the rooms rotate, the 15 rooms appear to blend into one; unable to distinguish each room from the next.
The point clouds represent the dispersed data of the space; left behind by each of the transcending guests as they exist temporarily in the hotel space.
Each of the participants were encouraged to immerse themselves in the audio as they stood inside the installation. Audio recordings from within each of the 15 Travelodge rooms blend seamlessly on top of the room projections to simulate the experience of being inside each of the 15 rooms for an ephemeral, transitional experience and existence.
Temporary, ephemeral, ethereal, transitional, transcendent, purposeful, non-place. Inspired by the anthropological text by Marc Augé.