Abstract:
ISSN: 2350-3165 This is the second in the 'distracted-reader' series, being a collaboration between two artists and three writers. The textual editing was my responsibility, Layla Tweedie-Cullen was the image editor and publication designer. Parr and Western provide a photographic essay on the ruinous state of Barton Gillespie’s modernist house in Westmere, Auckland, into photographs of mutely eloquent architectural and landscape fragments taken in Los Angeles and Mexico. Menzies’ essay reads the Barton Gillespie house as a figure of rapport between people, topography and climate. Pearce considers the itinerancy and conceptual mobility of Parr and Western’s practice. Babbage reflects on the different audiences that Parr and Western’s temporary, quasi-architectural spaces create, and the way the spaces operate as platforms for occupancy and performance
