| Optica:
Un Centre d’art Contemporain (Montréal,
Canada, 2002)
Centro de la Imagen (Mexico
City, Mexico, 2002)
Arte Alameda (Mexico
City, Mexico, 2002)
The Photographers' Gallery (London,
England, 2001)
Span Galleries
/ Experimenta Media Arts (Melbourne,
Australia, 1999)
Optica: Un Centre d'art Contemporain (Montréal,
Canada, 2002)
The Greylands Showroom is curated for the first
and final time into a group show named La Demeure
at Optica, Montréal. |
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The theme of the La Demeure group exhibition
is portable and transient architectures. It is curated
by Marie Frazer. |
Centro de la Imagen (Mexico
City, Mexico, 2002)
At Centro de la Imagen a reduced version of the Greylands
Showroom is exhibited.
Images from previous Greylands projects are
mounted on the concrete wall.
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Working in tandem with 'Arte Alameda' in Mexico City
Centro de la Imagen exhibits photographs and has a working
receptionist.
The Greylands logo is also mounted on the wall
and information is given out at the desk concerning
the Mexican project.
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Arte Alameda (Mexico
City, Mexico, 2002)
The Greylands Showroom exhibit started as part
of the Greylands project and later went on
to show separately.
The large-scale plans on the table show aerial views
of the site that Greylands is to be undertaken
upon.
A detail image of the keychains which are produced as
merchandise for the Mexican incarnation of the project.
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During the Greylands project in Mexico City,
the showroom was the headquarters for employees and
documentation.
A showroom supervisor is present along with project
information in the form of video, merchandise, research
and photographs.
A detail image of the T-shirts produced for the project.
Like the keychains, they are stacked on shelving units
in the showroom.
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Photographers' Gallery (London,
England, 2001)
In London, Greylands Showroom is exhibited
for the first time as its own project, a travelling
Greylands archive centre.
A detail image of the folders that contain research
material. The showroom is painted in the company colours
of grey and orange.
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All the research on polluted sites that Greylands
has visited is available as are the planning notes,
photographs and video.
A video plays on the TV, advertising opportunities available
through the ‘Borderline Developments’ housing
company.
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Span Galleries / Experimenta Media
Arts (Melbourne, Australia,
1999)
The Greylands Showroom exhibits separately
from the Greylands project for the first time
at Span Galleries in Melbourne
In the centre of the front panel is a trackball and
buttons allowing the audience to interact with the work
on the screen.
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This initial version of the project is shown as a website
on a plasma screen which is mounted within a rocking
structure.
The unstable structure is covered in soil and Astroturf
and can be rocked forward and backwards by the audience.
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