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| ‘The Morning After’ is a one minute film informed by Rem Koolhaas’ reading of the Manhattan street grid as “...a collection of blocks whose proximity and juxtaposition reinforce their separate meanings” (‘Delirious New York’, 1978). The protagonist exits St. Patrick’s Cathedral blessing himself, crosses one block to Rockefeller Center, where he pauses to contemplate Lee Lawrie’s inscription “Wisdom and Knowledge Shall Be The Stability Of Thy Times”, before reemerging on 6th Avenue to purchase and greedily devour a hot dog. This three-block journey sets up a putative opposition between the sacred and the profane (or the ‘pre-modern’ and the ‘modern’), before their ultimate synthesis as the film fades out in a heavenly glow of light. The soundtrack of the piece features ‘Our Prayer’, a short piece of harmony recorded by the Beach Boys which, in it’s melding of the sacred and the commercial, provides an analogue to the film. 'The Morning After' is the first of three short films that use New York City as a platform to explore the way narrative forms and mythologies shape our experience of architectural space. |
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Daniel Jewesbury, 'Permaculture', Art Monthly, April, 2003 Michael Wilson, from 'Tar Beach' essay, 2003 Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, 'EV+A'99', catalogue extract Gavin Weston, 'Gerard Byrne and Mark Orange', The Sunday Times, March 21, 1999 |
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