Architrope Participants
KnowelesEddieKnoweles, artist
Clare Stent, artist
Tom Wolseley, artist
Dr Mark Jackson, social geographer
Martine Drozdz, social geographer
Clare Maloney, Art producer
Dr Kristen Eglinton, Ethnographer
Architrope: thought/matter
Architrope is the name used by the artist Tom Wolseley to represent his practice since 2009. It is based in Cabin/et - a project space situated in Fairchild's Garden in Hackney.
Architrope was formed to create and explore transitional spaces and the relationship to more organised structures of identity and understanding.
Primarily Architrope uses the term 'Transitional Spaces' to refer to spaces between physical and psychological readings of oursleves and our environments.
The phrase was first coined by the psychoanalyst Winnicott to refer to the space 'between psyche and external reality' (ie between child and mother, analysand/analyst).
The term is used in a variety of other fields to represent other spaces between states more defined or identified, which the project is also keen to explore: