URBAN EXPLORATION // BEHIND THE SCENE

Urban exploration is a contemporary movement which challenges spatial boundaries by undertaking adventures to locate unconventional places for playful encounters between bodies and space. Urban exploration is at once a artistic reclamation, a political statement and a playful joke. The installation consists of a screening of Bradley L. Garrett's 30-minute film Urban Explorers: Quests for Myth, Mystery and Meaning and a display of 14 photographs depicting infiltrated urban infrastructure, derelict places and artistic play from John Dodd, Danny Pack, Alistair Sean William Costelloe, Laura Brown, Marc Explo, Arron Fulker and Chris Reinstadler.

The exhibit seeks to break urban spectacle into the realm of the embodied by exposing the wiring behind urban façade, questioning our suppositions about the role of disused, underused and underexperienced urban space and confronting assumptions about what is and isn't possible in the contemporary city, disrupting notions that present-day urban life is necessarily utilitarian or impossibly over-controlled.

This exhibit was presented at the Alan Baxter Gallery, 21st-26th June 2010.

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