| < | > | Campo San Lorenzo [film] 2011 digital film 16:9 sound 27 mins | |
| Nothing happens; this is the everyday. [...] The everyday is platitude (what lags and falls back, the residual life with which our trash cans and cemeteries are filled: scrap and refuse) but this banality is also what is most important if it brings us back to existence in its very spontaneity and as it is lived — in the moment when, lived, it escapes every speculative formulation, perhaps all coherence, all regularity. Maurice Blanchot Campo San Lorenzo contains a ruined church, a house for stray cats, a nursing home and a lap-dancing club. I visited the Campo and filmed there over the course of two months in 2011. The film was made possible with the help of the Arts Council of Wales at the 54th Venice Biennale of Art. Campo San Lorenzo was shown in a film installation at Allies & Morrison Architects in London, in December 2011. |
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