the fence :: first thoughts
The iconic Blue Fence is being replaced by razor wire. The edge of the site is still being patrolled by the same security guards in the same uniforms but what was hidden is now partly visible.
I want to explore the ways in which the Fence is part metaphor, part discourse – a way of seeing not only the Olympics and ‘2012′ but also the ‘Edge of London’. As it delimits space it establishes a ‘regime of truth’ and a ‘regime of space’.
Paralleling this, I will map the ways in which the Frame of the mobile phone camera screen similarly structures space, place and practice in relation to historical conceptions of windows and frames.
This convolute will explore how the liminal structures ‘2012′ and the mobile scopic regime.
