Wide Load A House Moved

Carless, Tonia

Abstract

This is an exhibition of cut books, supported by large scale display posters of the archive of Wide Load. The book includes essays by Tonia Carless & Robin Serjeant, James Benedict Brown, Matthew Hynam. Design by Paula Roush. Limited edition publication supported by UmArts Small Visionary Project. This is a culmination of a two-year research project analysing the spatial politics of un-building through the historic, cultural, technical and material significance of wholesale house-moving (husflyttningar) in northern Sweden. By investigating a single, historic house-move in Umeå during 2021, the project explores the vernacular mobility of shifting built and occupied structures in relation to a historic and future context of urban reconfiguration, a proposed architecture of de-growth in Northern Sweden.

• Exhibition Performance Type: Exhibition
• Start Date: Jun 16, 2023
• End Date: Jun 18, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jan 5, 2024
• Keywords: House-moving, displacement, uneven development, de-growth, relocation
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11549425
• Additional Information: Link:; https://www.umarts.se/programme-item/umarts-studio-opening/