Prime Cuts

Hoping to incentivise funding approval for the expansion of the Newcastle Region Art Gallery, its owners proposed to fast track the demolition of a temporary building on its site, the Children’s Art Pavilion. To promote a process of deconstruction for the Art Pavilion in preference to a more typical process of demolition, a series of 7 short films, Prime Cuts, described how a significant local landscape, captured within an image, were piecemeal transformed to depict the Art Pavilion as part of that landscape. The project also included the mapped projection of a 20 minute film, One Of These Days (developed around ideas within the Pink Floyd song of the same name), on to two panels of the Art Pavilion. On the night before the deconstruction of the Art Pavilion began it was shown through the evening to passers-by, and to an audience who gathered in the street.