We Used to Talk of Objects as Found, 2010

Twelve-channel video installation. Video HD, color, sound, 7'39" loop each.
Variable dimensions

Performed by Kevin Aviance


In We Used to Talk About Objects as Found, Kevin Aviance performs improvisation sessions from a film script found in the archives of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on the Robin Hood Gardens social housing project (1969-1972) by the architects Alison and Peter Smithson.

Aviance enacts the discussions, positions and ideas that generated this residential complex in Poplar, East London, playing the roles of both architects. A video recording of these improvised sessions was made at a time when the Tower Hamlets district had announced a redevelopment plan involving the demolition of the bRobin Hood Gardens.

We Used to Talk About Objects as Found was originally presented in 2010 as a twelve-screen installation in the main hall of the former headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects in London.

Documentation of the solo exhibition We Used to Talk of Objects as Found, Sketch, London, 2010

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