The Remote Viewer at Light Night 2018

The Remote Viewer (at Light Night 2018) from Michael C Coldwell on Vimeo.


Images and footage from The Remote Viewer, a new projection work and 'final show' from my practice-led PhD at the University of Leeds, entitled Aura and Trace: The Hauntology of the Rephotographic Image

Just my viva to go!

The Remote Viewer is coming...

Boynton Street has disappeared (Projection 2) 1906-2018

Unhealthy Area, Quarry Hill 1905-2018

These are deconstructed rephotographs of Quarry Hill in Leeds. The work attempts to take archive photographs of the cleared slums back to those streets that have disappeared, as part of an ongoing exploration of photography as a form of haunting.

This work is part of my practice-led PhD research which is nearing completion.

The final rephotographs will be projected on Light Night this year as part of a video installation called The Remote Viewer

Here's a sneak preview of the sort of thing we'll be doing...

Slum Clearance (2017) from Michael C Coldwell on Vimeo.

Failures of Presence by Michael C Coldwell

The Voids at Crossly Ln, Huddersfield by Michael C Coldwell, 2017

Failures of Presence

by Michael C Coldwell

a new photo book is in preparation

The eerie can be characterised as a "failure of absence or by a failure of presence" 

Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie, 2016.  

Failures of Landscape

Failures of Context

Failures of Narrative

Failures of Representation

Failures of Humanity

Failures of Presence

"Through the uncanny, presence is stripped of its reassuring content and "things" are reduced to their shadows" Dylan Trigg, The Memory of Place

This is a book of such shadows.

Coming soon...

Godfrey Bingley 'maquettes'

These test images were created as part of a research project into the ontology of rephotography. They use appropriated plates from the Godfrey Bingley collection, University of Leeds, to explore landscapes which have changed beyond all recognition. 

Leeds Topographics

Photograph taken in Armley for Outside Time project, 2016

Hidden Power

Hidden Power, Kirkstall Valley, Leeds 2016

Michael C Coldwell

The Trance of Light series

The Light Web

Denial of Service, 2016, Michael C Coldwell

What does the internet look like? It pervades all modern life, yet most of us are in the dark about how it works. In media theory it is seen as Baudrillard's great simulation, a comlete virtual world for us to explore and inhabit, a completely immaterial space. But this view of the web belies the fact that this apparently immaterial world is totally dependent on an incredibly complex material infrastructure - one that is often surprsingly old-fashioned when examined closely.

These are photographs of that physical 'web' that we routinely ignore.

Womb with a View

Reciprocal Structures

a different kind of spectral investigation

splitting light and sound

a commission for

Shelley James and Scott McLaughlin

More images here:

http://www.michaelcoldwell.co.uk/reciprocal5.html

Project details here:

http://reciprocalstructures.blogspot.co.uk

scir ac

from The Spectral Forest

the marks and traces of those who came before, here at the site of the

Skyrack Oak or scir rac (shire oak)

the old tree finally collapsed in 1941

I wonder if there are still roots beneath the pavement?

The Skyrack Wapentake

The Skyrack Wapentake I (2017)

The Skyrack Wapentake II

the dead-centre of an ancient kingdom

reflected in the window of a empty office unit

a tree stood here for one thousand years

now gradually forgotten