18 Rugby Street
Design Practices: Writing/ Poetic Practice, Curation



The Installation 18 Rugby Street challenges 'blue plaque' heritage and proposes a new methodology for the design and curation of literary spaces.

The confessional poem '18 Rugby Street' by Ted Huges was subjected to a poetic design methodology that translated the writing strategy of the poet into a design strategy , the reader expereince into the user experience.

Literary critisism and poetic practice extracted the aesthetic components and values allowing architecture to deconstruct and reconstruct the structural formation of the poem, exhibiton design to capture the domestic textures of the confessional work and motion typography the performative qualities of the text that curation then choreographed for the user experience.

18 Rugby Street is not only a poem but a biographical space that anticipates a blue plaque. To achieve the necessary tension with conventional literary spaces the framework of the installation is the result of not directly occuplying this biographical space but re-visualising it in a new one through appropriation.

This embracing of the materiality of language forces the written word on the page into a state of performance off the page and a new space emerges from the confines of the book not as liberation but as translation.

The result is a moment where typography achieves poetic utterance. The reader becomes a spectator immersed, outside of the confession but inside the poem's interior design.

Key Collaborators:
Fernando Lai Couto (motion typography), Nissana (May) Voravud (exhibition design), Pree Pumhiran (architecture), Spike Spondike (sound).
Special thanks to: Bobby Williams of 18 Rugby Street, Bloomsbury.









Contact:
Kim Patrick
07882643565
misskimpatrick@gmail.com