Metis was founded by Mark Dorrian and Adrian Hawker as a research design atelier. Metis’ work focuses on the city and the complex ways in which it is imagined, inhabited, and representationally encoded. The aim is to produce rich, multi- layered works that resist immediate consumption and that are instead gradually unfurled over time through interaction with them. Their research is concerned with establishing a poetic but critical approach to the city that is sensitive to its cultural memory but is also articulated in relation to its possible futures.
Scriptorium is Metis’ first venture into Newcastle Upon Tyne, an installation that makes the OnSite gallery a register of unseen conditions in the city around. The installation, playing upon the precedent of the ‘writing cell’, inscribes and makes visible the oscillations of the railway viaduct within the space, through an interplay of light, camera and projection.
Thursday October 27th, 5pm
Culture Lab OnSite
5 Forth Street
NE13PJ Newcastle upon Tyne
Open daily 4-7 pm until Tuesday November 1st.
Photography by Ko-Le Chen
