Affective Urbanism is a series of small, independent works that explore our emotional response toward the urban environment. As a highly urbanised society, any connection to the urban environment is often only realised when its rhythm is ruptured. The demolition of a building, the construction of a billboard or simply more people on bikes for a day – we are wired to notice difference. How we respond (and in turn contribute to that macro, societal response) is always relative to what we are used to… our own everyday.
Affective Urbanism 5 is an archeology of the present where the viewer is invited to consider the rhythm of the everyday as gleaned from its everyday discard. Found detritus is collected and photographed over a period of ten days in my own familiar territory of West Melbourne. Woven into a globe and suspended in the centre of the room, it is illuminated so that the curvature of the sphere is cast in silhouette onto the wall. The horizon on the wall morphs as the globe revolves while the shadows find their own rhythm. And we remember a new landscape which we had forgotten that we helped to make.