Peter Ainsworth: A Series Of Activities In Edge Spaces

I recently took part in a project by Peter Ainworth called 'A Series Of Activities In Edge Spaces'. This project involved a group of participants making formal structures from materials found on 'edge spaces', or public spaces without a designated purpose. The photographs and footage taken from these activities will form part of Pavilion's 2008 commission series which is to be exhibited at the National Media Museum in Bradford from September 12th 2008.

On his work, Peter states: 'Edge spaces as depicted in photography are viewed in a very different way to the site as experienced in the everyday navigation of the landscape. Within the frame of the image, the subject matter is given not only new semantic possibilities, but also new philosophical perspectives. Photographic depictions ask us to see the familiar from a new angle and to contemplate what is hidden below the surface – the disparity between the experience of space in ordinary life, through cultural and socially determined perceptions and the experience of a site as depicted by photography'.