Photographic Dioramas and Artist Statement.
Samuels Explores abandoned houses, schools, hospitals and asylums, and takes with her a cast of costumed characters. Her team use the suggested narratives found within the buildings to create disconnected, ethereal and often unsettling images, that play with ideas of memory, story-telling and the reclamation by nature of the man-made structures. Samuels work also explores [...]
The Abandoned Shop Of Curiosities 2011
“Welcome, to The Abandoned Shop Of Curiosities; an emporium which manifests in abandoned shops, and offers a window into neglected, forbidden and unseen places. The shop invites visitors to interact and explore, to discover strange narratives, and meet furtive creatures from The Abandoned Buildings Project.” The exhibition opened with a Victorian Tea Party, Jan 13th [...]
Interventions
Abandoned in the city: Boxed Dioramas offer windows into forbidden places for Manchester and London. Left Artworks: Dioramas and drawings left behind. Quiet Interventions/Changing Histories: photographs from the Abandoned Buildings Project join those already lost to abandoned spaces.
Public Intervention-Live. Victoria Baths. 2008
Public interventions: The Abandoned Buildings Project goes live, at Victoria Baths, Manchester.
The Abandoned Buildings Project at TR:IP
The Abandoned Buildings Project will preview: 7pm, 28th May, Greenroom Whitworth St West, Manchester. The exhibition runs 28th May – 21st June 2008 In assossiation with TR:IP Psychogeography festival and the Loiterers Resistance Movement.
Fair Mile Asylum
There’s something very special about an abandoned space. Often they are forbidden, boarded up and alarmed. The very act of visiting one becomes something illicit and exciting. Once inside you enter a new world, a time capsule link to the people who last lived or worked there, ten, forty, a hundred years ago. Seemingly mundane [...]
The Abandoned Buildings Project
Urban Exploration. Squeezing through windows, abseiling from roofs and falling through floors into mans abandoned structures. Armed with ropes, torches, gloves and face masks, (the uniform of the explorer, the activist and the criminal) Artist and Activist Jane Samuels explores abandoned houses, asylums, hospitals and schools to create theatrical, often unsettling photographic images which explore; [...]
The School House
This time two of us travel to the site. We find it easily, and are surprised to find that we can walk straight up; no fencing or security here. A small boat house, still full of canoes was the first clue that the place might be special. Some of the out buildings are badly fire [...]
Artefacts
Birthday Card Invite, North Manchester House. Bedroom Fireplace. Manchester United Match Ticket. North Manchester House. Top Room. Dog Photograph. North Manchester House. Living Room. Wooden Railing. North Manchester House. Top Room.
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