KARTONHAUS ADJUSTMENT 2

The work is one of a larger series of 'Kartonhaus' interventions. The Kartonhaus interventions restructure the experience of space in a site or architecture using collected and reconstructed domestic furnitures and found, recycled cardboard boxes or cartons, as well as other materials and objects. They are often an adjustment of the pre-exisiting habitation patterns or histories of a dwelling that remake the space.

A previous iteration was assembled and installed in a studio-apartment in Austria. It was a remaking or activation of a living-working environment and I was much influenced by the architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and the living space she designed and made for herself in Vienna.

This installation is also a response to a previous work Mrs Birds House; lounge situated in 1996 at Linden Gallery in the same room. I transposed an intervention work Mrs Birds House; lounge room which was proportioned to and in the interior of a Victorian cottage living room, into the same room this work occupies now.

Each instance I think about how previous experience of space is overlayed in time with the experience of the viewer in space in their time.

I work with collected cardboard boxes and objects as a temporary material that pass between public and private space. I have been using the boxes, which are resourced around cities and then re-cycled, to explore and articulate ways I move about domestic architectures.

I am particularly interested in how women create and construct their own space.

My approach is a product of where I spend time, how I move about space, looking for how the traces of prior occupation have adjusted the architectural conditions. I perform domestic actions of organising and processing as sculptural and spatial relations.

I consider how we exist in interior spaces and respond to how social space constructs us. I structure my thoughts as they accumulate.

In this instance the current install at Linden Gallery is a further transposition, a fragment of a larger Kartonhaus developing in my studio-space. There I am using cardboard structures, furnitures, wraps and other objects and miscellanea, that constitute the everyday. The elements in the Linden space set up dialogues and speak to contexts - whether from a gendered position or an historical perspective.

In Linden Gallery the structure is dis-assembled and re-assembled, laying one place over another to alter the spatial flow - to shift the emphasis from the existing rectangular room to form passages and relationships and reorient attention to our peripheral vision and perception. In addition, there are framed 'mediation photographs' that record 'stations' of my prior inhabitation and thinking in the space. Intervening in the perception of time and perception.

The install is part reconstructed domestic furniture, part living room, part archive, part retreat. A private, organisational structure to house and filter... (with a chair, cabinet, support frames and so on), using sight lines and viewing portals, with gaps, absences, spaces underneath and compressions.

I tend not to think of works as having a beginning or an end but rather a trajectory or journey. I focus on the interconnection and process of making [and this as a moment].