Altered Sites 2023
Curated by George Charman and Dr David Stent, the exhibition Altered Sites was presented alongside the symposium Altered Sites: On Psychedelic Architecture, held at West Dean College on May 26th, 2023. The symposium explored experimental and critical approaches to architectural form through the exploration of built and/or imagined structures as sites of alterity, utilising the notion of psychedelic experience and expansive consciousness to engage with site as a potentially productive form of difference, dynamism, and otherness. Contributors questioned how structures – in buildings, constructed objects, images, writing, creative practices – in which gestures of inversion, reversal, enfolding, involution, projection, expansion, collapse, – remain present within the resultant construction.
List of Exhibition works
1. Edward James – The Little City of Seclusia (1957) Oil on canvas. West Dean College Collection (WDCC)
2. George Charman – Formwork #1 and Formwork #2 (2023) Felt pen, Posca pen, coloured pencil on paper
3. Unknown [Plutarco Gastélum] – Studio of Pavel Tchelitchew (New York City) (1945) Colour photograph (WDCC)
4. Eugene Berman – Architectural Fantasy (1935) Ink on paper (WDCC)
5. Edward James – To the Earth (c.1943) Gouache on collotype (WDCC)
6. Mark West – Hotel Edward Hopper [Court Interior, Lobby I, Lobby II] (2007) Digital prints on Somerset Satin
7. Unknown [Edward James] – Photogram I & II (c.1943) (WDCC)
8. Adam Wiseman – Arquitectura Libre (2018) Colour photograph
9. Adam Wiseman – Arquitectura Libre (2018) Colour photograph
10. David R J Stent – These Weak Kindnesses (Crosshairs & Local Ceremonies) (2023) Acrylic, spray paint, ink, coloured pencil, salt, ash, gesso on board
11. Cecilia Charlton – First, You Don't Know What You Don't Know [Ocean series, Sunlight Zone] (2023) Hand-woven cotton and wool yarn. Courtesy of Candida Stevens Gallery
12. Cecilia Charlton – Then, You Know What You Don't Know [Ocean Series, Twilight Zone] (2023) Hand-woven cotton and wool yarn. Courtesy of Candida Stevens Gallery
13. Cecilia Charlton – Next, You Know What You Know [Ocean Series, Midnight Zone] (2023) Hand-woven cotton and wool yarn. Courtesy of Candida Stevens Gallery
14. Cecilia Charlton – And Then, You Don't Know What You Know [Ocean Series, Abyssal Zone] (2023) Hand-woven cotton and wool yarn. Courtesy of Candida Stevens Gallery
15. Pavel Tchelitchew – The Skull [The Crystal Grotto] (1940) Gouache on paper (WDCC)
16. Vitrine: a. Eugene Berman – Untitled ‘Capriccio’ (1935-37) Ink on paper (WDCC)
b. Eugene Berman – Triumphal Arch (1935) Ink on paper (WDCC)
c. Gerald Rebaudo – Untitled (1982) Pen on paper (WDCC)
d. Marcel Duchamp – Rotoreliefs (1935) Offset lithographs (WDCC)
17. Mark West – Hotel Edward Hopper [Seaside Fac.] (2007) Digital print on Somerset Satin
18. David R J Stent – These Weak Kindnesses (The Ballard Twins & Untitled) (2023) Acrylic, spray paint, ink, coloured pencil, salt, ash, gesso on board
19. Unknown [Edward James] – Photograph of Pavel Tchelitchew painting on the balcony of studio (New York City) (1945) Colour photograph (WDCC)
20. George Charman – Formwork #3 (2023) Felt pen, Posca pen, coloured pencil on paper
21. Mark West – Hotel Edward Hopper [Colour 3 Courtyard] (2007) Digital print on Somerset Satin