The Mobile Landscape
Nick Ferguson 2014. The Mobile Landscape. Powerpoint presentation. 48 slides. Duration: 30 minutes.
Nick Ferguson 2014. The Mobile Landscape. Powerpoint presentation. 48 slides. Duration: 30 minutes.
Nick Ferguson 2014. The Mobile Landscape. Powerpoint presentation. 48 slides. Duration: 30 minutes.
Nick Ferguson 2014. The Mobile Landscape. Powerpoint presentation. 48 slides. Duration: 30 minutes.
Nick Ferguson 2014. The Mobile Landscape. Powerpoint presentation. 48 slides. Duration: 30 minutes.
Nick Ferguson 2014. The Mobile Landscape. Powerpoint presentation. 48 slides. Duration: 30 minutes.
Nick Ferguson 2014. The Mobile Landscape. Powerpoint presentation. 48 slides. Duration: 30 minutes.
Nick Ferguson 2014. The Mobile Landscape. Powerpoint presentation. 48 slides. Duration: 30 minutes.
Nick Ferguson 2014. The Mobile Landscape. Powerpoint presentation. 48 slides. Duration: 30 minutes.
Nick Ferguson 2014. The Mobile Landscape. Powerpoint presentation. 48 slides. Duration: 30 minutes.
Nick Ferguson 2014. The Mobile Landscape. Powerpoint presentation. 48 slides. Duration: 30 minutes.
Nick Ferguson 2014. The Mobile Landscape. Powerpoint presentation. 48 slides. Duration: 30 minutes.
Nick Ferguson 2014. The Mobile Landscape. Powerpoint presentation. 48 slides. Duration: 30 minutes.
Nick Ferguson 2014. The Mobile Landscape. Powerpoint presentation. 48 slides. Duration: 30 minutes.
Nick Ferguson 2014. The Mobile Landscape. Powerpoint presentation. 48 slides. Duration: 30 minutes.
The Mobile Landscape
The Mobile Landscape is a slideshow with a documentary-style narrative that describes Ferguson’s journeys around the highways of England. In search of a site for a public art project, the artist takes the viewer along rural stretches of the motorway to inspect a series of roadside advertising hoardings in the South East. They are the type mounted on obsolete transport infrastructure and which are strategically positioned on agricultural land. As the hoardings are surveyed for their potential, there emerges a political history of the view from the road: of a countryside sculpted by the comings and goings of capital; of rural aspirations and anxieties; of clandestine livelihoods sustained by proximity to the road.
Duration: 30 minutes. This work was performed at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, in 2015. An earlier version of this work was performed at: ‘Across RCA: Beautiful and New: The Social Function of Sculpture and Architecture’, Royal College of Art, October 29, 2014.
To listen to an online version of the work click here:
http://www.stanleypickergallery.org/online-works/nick-ferguson-the-mobile-landscape-3/
Nick Ferguson, 2015