Invisible Architectures

  • Date
    09-11 September 2011

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Invisible Architectures is a micro-festival exploring the invisible yet influential substrates of urban existence. Artists, architects and writers expose layers of the city that otherwise remain imperceptible, making up what we habitually refer to and perceive as background noise, ambiences or atmospheres.

Within the apparent banality of the everyday lies beauty, horror and imperceptible dynamics that influence and inform the spaces we occupy, as well as our experiences of them. Guided tours of the subtle, subliminal and subterranean expose invisible layers of the city, drawing into the foreground that which otherwise lingers in the background.

The sounds, smells, textures and electromagnetic intensity of the urban environment often pass by unnoticed; through pedestrian exploration of the uncanny underside of Newcastle upon Tyne, these layers of the city are brought to the surface.

This would be of interest to anyone with an interest in experimental architecture, urbanism, media art, sound, interaction, psychogeography, urban explorations and public participation.