artist:
Pippa Koszerek

project:
Building Blocks

location:
Interventions will appear along the Trans Pennine Trail and River Hull areas. A mini-event will also be held along Wincolmlee in the derelict site beside Andersons Antiques. A map and images will be available on this page from mid-June.

date(s):
Subtle interventions will appear in June and July. A Hull mini-event surrounding this project will take place at 7pm on Friday 18 July.

description:
Around Hull City Centre there are numerous derelict buildings, or the remnants of buildings, with partly standing brick walls and exposed foundations. For Artranspennine03 Pippa Koszerek proposes to subtly interfere with these sites; to fill in the cracks or partly repair brick walls. Her materials will be cement and a variety of colourful, cheap mass-produced objects bought from Pound Shops around Hull. By repairing elements of urban dereliction with low cost consumer goods Koszerek's works plays on the contradictions abounding in urban life. Using goods manufactured through the cheapest schemes, she creates playful interventions, usurping the areas in central Hull designated for retail.

Her work also opens questions on the pollution of spaces, with the artist herself taking on the role of polluter; a contradiction in terms as her work will be bright and cheerful, fanciful and surprising for the chance passer-by.

Changes to specific sites along the River Hull and the Trans Pennine Trail will occur throughout June and July. These interventions will be primarily for a chance audience; however there will also be the focus of one of the Hull mini-events on Friday 18 July at 7pm. Documentation of these interventions will be posted up on this page from mid-June onwards. Koszerek is excited by spaces and their potential, by those sites considered eyesores to the general scheme of things.

link:
http://www.pipart.org.uk

Documentation
(photos by Johnny Bates and Philip Barnes)