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Publisher:: Cairo Biennale 2008/2009
Publication Type:: Exhibition
Citation:: Cairo Biennale 2008/2009

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dc.contributor.author	Wallen, LP https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4856-9864	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	ak-Kasabi, S	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	El-Labban, E	en_US
dc.date	2008-12-20	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Cairo Biennale 2008/2009	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/31854
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/12394
dc.description.abstract	City as Stage – the photographic and conceptual material for the photomedia installation at the Cairo Biennale 2008-09 – was collected in the Dubai International City, a housing development divided into districts named after countries (Morocco, China, Spain, England), with some that have ceased to exist (Persia). The brochure for the development makes interesting claims, for example, International City’s ‘Morocco’ features three and four storey residential buildings decorated with vibrant green tiles, natural terracottas, stucco walls and wide arch windows. The simplicity of the architecture conjures up images of life in the desert, with airy spaces and sand-coloured walls evoking an old world charm and, International City’s ‘England’ harks back to traditional London life. Two, three and four storey buildings reflecting 18th and 19th Century Georgian and Revivalist styles are topped by red gabled roofs and brick chimneys. Shop fronts on the ground floor add to the sense of old English community spirit The research involved looking at fictional scenarios developed in the built environment and contrasting them with the photographic documentation of what is actually a scenographic space, a stage designed to be somewhere it is not. We are told through text and symbol that we are not in the Arabian desert but experiencing the old world charm of the souk or Regents Park, London. We find new definitions of authenticity, complexity and simulation in this ‘city’ that has been conceptualised on the desire of the other. This is identifiable when removed from its context and reconfigured in the form of a photomedia installation.	en_US
dc.language	English	en_US
dc.publisher	Cairo Biennale 2008/2009	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Cairo Biennale 2008/2009	en_US
dc.title	repetitive systems	en_US
dc.type	Exhibition
utslib.location	Cairo Biennale 2008/2009	en_US
utslib.location.activity	international	en_US
utslib.for	120302 Design Innovation	en_US
dc.location.activity	international	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CCDP - Contemporary Design Practice
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.place-of-publication	Cairo Biennale 2008/2009	en_US
pubs.start-date	2008-12-20	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	City as Stage – the photographic and conceptual material for the photomedia installation at the Cairo Biennale 2008-09 – was collected in the Dubai International City, a housing development divided into districts named after countries (Morocco, China, Spain, England), with some that have ceased to exist (Persia). The brochure for the development makes interesting claims, for example, International City’s ‘Morocco’ features three and four storey residential buildings decorated with vibrant green tiles, natural terracottas, stucco walls and wide arch windows. The simplicity of the architecture conjures up images of life in the desert, with airy spaces and sand-coloured walls evoking an old world charm and, International City’s ‘England’ harks back to traditional London life. Two, three and four storey buildings reflecting 18th and 19th Century Georgian and Revivalist styles are topped by red gabled roofs and brick chimneys. Shop fronts on the ground floor add to the sense of old English community spirit The research involved looking at fictional scenarios developed in the built environment and contrasting them with the photographic documentation of what is actually a scenographic space, a stage designed to be somewhere it is not. We are told through text and symbol that we are not in the Arabian desert but experiencing the old world charm of the souk or Regents Park, London. We find new definitions of authenticity, complexity and simulation in this ‘city’ that has been conceptualised on the desire of the other. This is identifiable when removed from its context and reconfigured in the form of a photomedia installation.	en_US

Abstract:

City as Stage – the photographic and conceptual material for the photomedia installation at the Cairo Biennale 2008-09 – was collected in the Dubai International City, a housing development divided into districts named after countries (Morocco, China, Spain, England), with some that have ceased to exist (Persia). The brochure for the development makes interesting claims, for example, International City’s ‘Morocco’ features three and four storey residential buildings decorated with vibrant green tiles, natural terracottas, stucco walls and wide arch windows. The simplicity of the architecture conjures up images of life in the desert, with airy spaces and sand-coloured walls evoking an old world charm and, International City’s ‘England’ harks back to traditional London life. Two, three and four storey buildings reflecting 18th and 19th Century Georgian and Revivalist styles are topped by red gabled roofs and brick chimneys. Shop fronts on the ground floor add to the sense of old English community spirit The research involved looking at fictional scenarios developed in the built environment and contrasting them with the photographic documentation of what is actually a scenographic space, a stage designed to be somewhere it is not. We are told through text and symbol that we are not in the Arabian desert but experiencing the old world charm of the souk or Regents Park, London. We find new definitions of authenticity, complexity and simulation in this ‘city’ that has been conceptualised on the desire of the other. This is identifiable when removed from its context and reconfigured in the form of a photomedia installation.

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