{"id":849,"date":"2012-01-02T16:32:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T15:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/?p=849"},"modified":"2014-10-27T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T13:22:46","slug":"topophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/2012\/01\/02\/topophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Topophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last few days in the studio on the work for the <a title=\"Topo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daniellearnaud.com\/exhibitions\/exhibition-topophobia.html\" target=\"_blank\">Topophobia exhibition, opening at Danielle Arnaud on 13th January<\/a>. &#8216;Star Fort&#8217; will be a fold up structure built and documented in the gallery (some preliminary sketches for the work shown). The second leg of the show, at the Bluecoat from 2nd March, will also feature a newly commissioned work that will occupy the corridor space.<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-849 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/2012\/01\/02\/topophobia\/star-fortweb\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/star-fortweb-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/2012\/01\/02\/topophobia\/star-fort2web\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/star-fort2web-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The fear of place and the manifestation of this in  contemporary art is the territory for TOPOPHOBIA. As an anxiety  disorder, this phobia is understood as an irrational dread of certain  places or situations, yet, considered as a cultural phenomenon  topophobia connects us to the existential human question of how each of  us finds our place in the world. The exhibition and related publication  take a look at the representation of place and space as threatened or  threatening.<\/p>\n<p>TOPOPHOBIA is a group show featuring the work of ten UK and international artists. The range of media and approaches is wide.  \t\t\t<strong>Anne Eggebert<\/strong> makes detailed drawings derived from images on Google Earth;  \t\t\t<strong>Matthias Einhoff<\/strong> uses high-end corporate video techniques to make a spectacle of an urban wasteland;  \t\t\t<strong>David Ferrando Giraut<\/strong> creates a state of anxiety with his filmic pan of the aftermath of a car accident;  \t\t\t<strong>Polly Gould<\/strong> constructs distorted topographical watercolours reflected in the surface of a globe;  \t\t\t<strong>Marja Helander<\/strong> depicts herself out of place between her two cultures of contemporary Finland and Sami nomadic heritage;  \t\t\t<strong>Uta Kogelsberger<\/strong> reveals uncanny night visions of urban and desert America in her photographs;  \t\t\t<strong>Almut Rink<\/strong> appropriates the 3D software used by architects to take the viewer on an imaginary journey in a virtual space;  \t\t\t<strong>Abigail Reynolds<\/strong> exposes disjointed time and place in her use of old book illustrations in collages and assemblage.  \t\t\t<strong>Emily Speed<\/strong> houses her body in a fortress made from shutters; and \t\t\t<strong>Louise K Wilson<\/strong> uses sound derived from her work at a previously top secret Cold War testing site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last few days in the studio on the work for the Topophobia exhibition, opening at Danielle Arnaud on 13th January. &#8216;Star Fort&#8217; will be a fold up structure built and documented in the gallery (some preliminary sketches for the work shown). The second leg of the show, at the Bluecoat from 2nd March, will also &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/2012\/01\/02\/topophobia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Topophobia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[195,150,384,391,57,44,197,386],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-london","tag-danielle-arnaud-gallery","tag-drawings","tag-exhibitions","tag-london","tag-performance","tag-sculpture","tag-star-fort","tag-work-in-progress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}