Jordan Hodgson and Niall Gallacher work with architecture and the built environment and are co-founders of House of Jonn, a studio for creative engagement with the city. They studied Architecture at Leeds and Cambridge respectively then together at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2009. Recent work includes a two-week live residency at Selfridges, design for a production of Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio' in a Russian gulag and construction of a new Shoreditch club and event space.
House of Jonn go to Selfridges
Holla all!
If you don’t already know, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones… we’ve got everyone else already lending a hand.
But we wouldn’t want to keep you in the dark… oh no. Not when it’s just a matter of days now til Jordan and Niall decamp temporarily from the Hospital Club and set up office with aberrant architecture under the full glare of Oxford Street. Ah yes!
The story is this: we’re Architecture Residents here at the Hospital, aberrant are Architecture Residents over at the V&A. Now we’re teaming together to stage a joint two-week ‘pop-up residency’ in Selfridges’ famous Wonder Room Windows.
From 9.30am on 16th June we’ll be transforming our temporary home there from a blank retail canvas to a sprawling cityscape installation. Day by day and brick by brick, the growth of the city will be visible to the masses coming and going outside.
Fellow Creatives in Residence Alex Shepherd (Visual Arts 2010), Simon Burrill (Film 2009) and Destiny Ekaragha (Film 2010) have joined the project too. Alex and Simon will be showing new work alongside and amidst our Selfridges city, while Destiny is going rogue to shoot ‘behind the scenes’. Now all we need is… you.
This city will be built from things you tell us about your own personal London – diverse, perverse, love it or loathe it, private or otherwise – anything goes. Please click here and take a minute to send us a picture, a word or an idea that tells us something about what London means to you. Then the HOJO/aberrant residency tagteam will magic it into our alternative model city.
Thank you in advance for your contributions!
Oh and drop by anytime from 16th June to stare and point at us, live at work in the window. We look forward to seeing you. x
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Please note: all visual material you send us must be your own original work. If a recognisable person is included in any video or photograph you send us, you must ensure that you have the signed consent of that person for that material to be exhibited in public. In the event of a complaint you will be required to produce a copy of that signed consent.
Tags: aberrant architecture, Alex Shepherd, Destiny Ekaragha, Selfridges, Simon Burrill, Welcome to your City
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