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Concert Hall, from Pripyat: 21 Year after Chernobyl Series © Quintin Lake

I’m delighted to be participating in this exhibition & event, here’s the blurb:

UNINTENTION explores the ways in which creativity can manipulate and reinvent the purpose behind ideas, objects, web-sharing, personal and world events. Works include a satirical rehash of a presidential television broadcast by filmmaker Chris Morris; as well as an immersive display of projected stills from the collection Pripyat: 21 Years After Chernobyl by architectural photographer Quintin Lake, documenting both the initial aftermath of the nuclear disaster and the change in its environment since.

Along with the show as a whole, the works use existing material by changing their original intentions; a leaders broadcast becomes a skilled re-edit ridden with satire; the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, via its documentation, inevitably becomes a collection of photographic art. Other new and existing works in the show will include; the focus of normal practical objects being turned into pieces of visual art; a short video art piece encompassing a well known graffiti love-note from the walls of the infamous Park Hill flats in Sheffield; and various pieces looking at Internet Memes and considering their place in the art world.

UNINTENTION  @ WCS | Wolstenholme Creative Space | 11 Wolstenholme Square | Liverpool | L1 4JJ

Preview | 28 September 2011, 6-9pm

Exhibition | 29 September – 2 October 2011, 12-4pm

Admission FREE

UNINTENTION Closing Night Event | 2 October 2011

7pm | The Light Bulb Conspiracy  Admission FREE

Film collective, Tea and Two Slice, present The Light Bulb Conspiracy documentary screening + free tea and toast!

8:30pm | Ruins Alone + live performances  Admission £4

In partnership with WCS, I Am Your Barber, Postmusic and Samzidat present live performances from:

RUINS ALONE (skin graft) Legendary Japanese drum god, showcasingp;the works of Ruins, Koenjihyakkei in his mind melting solo performance

STIG NOISE DIY mariachi trumpet fuelled noise nonsense since 1998

BARBEROS Duel drumming, synth wielding, spandex sporting electro doom jazz noise hollering perverts

The live performances will also include live visuals by video artist Sam Wiehl, manipulating Internet Memes once again reinventing their intention and allowing the meme to evolve within the art gallery setting.

Further Info:

www.wolstenholmecreativespace.com/unintention

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Photography  © Quintin Lake, 2011

Detail of alumium studs on facade. Post Office Savings Bank (Postsparkasse), Vienna, Austria 1904-12 Architect: Otto Wagner.

Detail of aluminium radiator. Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna, Austria 1904-12 Architect: Otto Wagner

Glass block and column base detail. Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna, Austria 1904-12 Architect: Otto Wagner

Main hall with glass roof and glass block floor. Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna, Austria 1904-12 Architect: Otto Wagner

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Photography  © Quintin Lake, 2011

Detail of coloured tiles and window of St. Stephens Cathedral (Stephansdom), Vienna, Austria

Coloured tiles of St. Stephens Cathedral contrasting with surrounding buildings, Vienna, Austria.

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Photography  © Quintin Lake, 2011

Vaults in the aisle of Cathedral of our Lady, Sedlec - Czech Republic. Photo: Quintin Lake

Aisle of Cathedral of our Lady, Sedlec - Czech Republic. Photo: Quintin Lake

Cathedral of our Lady, Sedlec - Czech Republic. Photo: Quintin Lake

Vaulting and fresco Cathedral of our Lady, Sedlec - Czech Republic. Photo: Quintin Lake

The Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a poem in white and cream utilising a modernist sense of restraint in decoration to articulate the space.

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Coat of arms of Schwarzenberg family at Kostnice (Sedlec Ossuary) in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic

In 1870, František Rint, a woodcarver, was employed by the Schwarzenberg family to put the bone heaps into order. Four enormous bell-shaped mounds occupy the corners of the chapel. An enormous chandelier of bones, which contains at least one of every bone in the human body, hangs from the center of the nave with garlands of skulls draping the vault. Other works include piers and monstrances flanking the altar, a large Schwarzenberg coat-of-arms, and the signature of Rint, also executed in bone, on the wall near the entrance.

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Altar and vaults, interior of St Barbara Church, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. Photo: Quintin Lake

Vaults above the nave of St Barbara Church, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. Photo: Quintin Lake

Vaults behind the altar, St Barbara Church, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. Photo: Quintin Lake

Frescoes and vaults of St Barbara Cathedral, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. Photo: Quintin Lake

St Barbara is one of the most famous Gothic churches in central Europe and it is a UNESCO world heritage site. St Barbara is the patron saint of miners (among others), which was highly appropriate for a town whose wealth was based entirely upon its silver mines. Construction began in 1388, but because work on the church was interrupted several times, it was not completed until 1905.

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A visualisation of the folded roof of Godsbanen, The Freight Yard Project. Image by 3XN Architects

Construction of reinforced concrete roof. Photo: Quintin Lake

An visualisation of the roof of Godsbanen set between existing freight halls. Image by 3XN Architects

The new building provides a link between the two freight halls. Photo: Quintin Lake

The ridge area around the roof-lights adds to the structural stiffness of the roof. Photo: Quintin Lake

The reinforcing bars on the apex of the roof. Photo: Quintin Lake

The roof creates a new public landscape between the old freight halls. Olafur Eliasson's "Your Rainbow Panorama" visible at right. Photo: Quintin Lake

Wavy reinforcing steel provides stiffness against shear forces in the new roof. Photo: Quintin Lake

The main new building contains two new concert halls. The reinforced concrete ramp to the roof is being constructed in the foreground. Photo: Quintin Lake

Temporary concrete shuttering allows for the construction of the building's faceted angles. Photo: Quintin Lake

Sections of the freight yard's original rail tracks. Photo: Quintin Lake

Sound insulated recording studio in the old freight halls. Photo: Quintin Lake

The striking laminated timber beams of the original freight hall. A music venue being constructed at the rear. Photo: Quintin Lake

These images show the construction, as of June 2011, for a new cultural hub for scenography, visual arts and literature named Godsbanen /The Freight Yard Project that is being built within a historical framework in Denmark’s second largest city, Aarhus. The new cultural center is meant to be an inspiring setting that stimulates production of the arts and facilitates the interaction amongst the various artistic metiers, business and education.

The project design by Architects 3XN in collaboration with Søren Jensen Engineers is comprised of the renovation of the existing freight halls along with a new building with rooms and large scale auditoria. The roof of the building will appear as an extension of the green space – and will take the form of a green ‘carpet’ over the new building.  The project is expected to be completed in 2012.

These photos were commissioned by Søren Jensen, the engineering firm of the project.

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Photography  © Quintin Lake, 2011