Urban Fog

1A, Saint Jude Street, London, United Kingdom

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Urban Fog

1A, Saint Jude Street, London, United Kingdom

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YEAR

2011

BUDGET

$0 - 10K

Urban fog is a temporary art installation and tea house project, led by Atelier ChanChan. Situated between art and architecture the installation is creatively directed by Zoe Chan (of Atelier ChanChan), in collaboration with designers Sarah Khan, Mickey Kloihofer and Mariana Pestana, to create a momentary community event in what was previously a derelict urban void in East London.
THE INSTALLATION CONCEPT
Urban Fog is a site-specific response to a derelict, walled and hidden pocket of empty space in Dalston, and a wider investigation into escape, transparency, and thresholds. The proposal teams up with a TinaWeSaluteYou, to create a temporary 2 week tea house; echoing both local culture of transient art and the hidden nature of the site.
The installation utilises the depth of the long enclosed site to create a series of thresholds of occupation. The long trajectory of the space is seen as a journey for the body and the eye, like a series of foggy cinematic frames capturing increasing levels of private space. Like entering a lost cloud which has temporarily come to rest in this urban void, figures appear and disappear within the depth of the space and become distorted through light and shadow.