Edin: Edge of the Grid Collective James Voller, Tane Upjohn-Beatson and Robin Aitken
Edge of the Grid Collective: Tane Upjohn-Beatson, James Voller and Robin Aitken
Edin is a new installation by The Edge of the Grid Collective, incorporating the work of photographic artist James Voller, architect Robin Aitken and film and theatre sound artist Tane Upjohn-Beatson. The installation aims to build on a previous collaboration between Voller and Aitken, Edge of the Grid at Migalaxy in Wellington 2010, which used photography and architectural sculpture to investigate the edge condition (a phenomena that describes emerging areas of the city) at the edge of the modern city, specifically Wellington.
Edin incorporates work Voller undertook overseas which interrogates history, urban growth, and the layers of cities. The project also continues Aitken's interest in the relationship between the edge condition and the city centre, and in particular the idea that for a city to grow, it must be fuelled by what lies beyond its edge.
Bringing photographic imagery from Edinburgh to Dunedin, Edin will interpret the weight, history and layers of twinned cites Edinburgh and Dunedin. The installation will solidify and condense the city centre into an object that has human scale, a tangible weight, and a strong relationship with the ground.
But rather than presenting a factual account of the functions and history of the two cities, Edin will provide a new imagined / abstracted space that aims to acknowledge the shared lineage between both sites. Exploring the contrasting material and immaterial weights through installation and Upjohn-Beatson's soundscape will highlight the migratory link between the two cities and bring about a voice of in-between thereby allowing visitors to acknowledge aspects of their own place and the place from which it has come.
