The Elevation Station @ 12.30

by Ruth Barker, 13 Jun 2009

Hello,
welcome to our (almost) live coverage of the PAR+RS / GANGHUT collaboration: The Elevation Station. We’ve been on site for about two and a helf hours now, and we’re starting to settle into some kind of ongoing GANGHUT logic. We’ve set up camp on a patch of wasteground behind the DCA in Dundee, and we’re attempting to build the eponymous structure. Six GANGHUT members (GANGHUT are a longtime collaborative team of artists, who all still have their own individual practices as well – more info here ) have been joined by six volunteers, including myself and PAR+RS documenter for the day Berengere Chabanis, who has been photographing, filming, and sound recording the event.

The space itself is an incongruous ‘lost’ space in the centre of Dundee, cut off by the dual carriageway and hidden by the backs of buildings on the Nethergate / Perth Road. I guess there used to be a functioning building here, but I have no way of knowing what it might have been.

We’re all mooching about (apart from me, I’m sitting on a rock to write this) in our hi vis tabards as it’s nearly lunchtime and there’s hunger in the air. A small sub-collective has been deputised to make the sandwiches. We’ve had a good morning, with what seems like fair progress made, and the cloud-drenched sky has given way to sunshine and even a patch of blue. Berengere assures me that it will rain at 4pm, but so far I’m hoping that she may be wrong.

I’ll have my sarnie, and then get back to you with some thoughts about the work.

More later,
R