Living Temporarely: Mobile,Transient and Makeshift housingД¬ultures de bГЄtes. Gesture and matter: Leroi-Gourhan, japanese discoveries Feed its animals and live on the breeding Ethnologie de l'art et du design contemporains Excess, Leftover and InnovationД®ssais de bricologie. Imitation of living beings and modeling of lifeДЇixing the world. Uprisings, subversions, refugesД«iomimicry. Portrait of Lybomir, worker working on a demolition site.Д«rian's portrait, worker working on a demolition site, engraved on some zinc recycled and printed on architect's recycled plans.ДЄbysses, abysses, exo-worlds.

Portrait of a worker in demolition forming while the zinc is washed in the water.ДЄ story of the zinc engraved in the zinc (in mirror) by means of a varnish on the zinc collected and covered with nitric acid.ДЄndy McLachlan's portrait, worker in demolition working for the company Scudder, hired on the site of the UCL.ДЄndy McLachlan's portrait, worker in demolition, engraved on a brass plate of couvrement recycled.Дetail of the final test of Andy's portraitДЄndy McLachlan to the canteen of the construction workers of the UCL in front of a version enlarged by the paper print makes from the zinc of couvrement recycled and printed on architect's collected plans.ДЇinal test on architect's collected plans

Overview of an image taking shape as the zinc, handled with a cloud of powder of resin of warmed aquatint, is bitten into the nitric acid. Zinc bands of cover waiting to be cleaned to the workshop of print. Zinc of cover deformed, piled on a demolition site The artist Hilary Powell appropriating some zinc of cover on the construction site of recovery of metals. Roof top of Wates House, College of London University (UCL) in the course of profound renovation and old building of Barlett School of Architecture. It continued as Hilary became Leverhulme Artist in Residence in UCL Chemistry collaborating with Anthropology through a UCL Sustainable Cities Grand Challenges award on вЂDeconstructing Demolition: Journeys through Scrap and SalvageвЂ™ working towards вЂUrban AlchemyвЂ™ events, printmaking experiments, prints and publication. The project focuses on often overlooked and undervalued processes, materials, lives and livelihoods and questions the way we value, consume and waste materials.ДЎThe project began through ongoing work on demolition sites as part of an AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Creative production and the poetry and politics of place combine with the science, agency and political ecology of materials in this cross disciplinary exploration of the life cycles and micro and macro economics of the material culture of post-industrial landscapes. Through imaginative salvage the work explores regeneration and economic transition by putting the physical remnants of industrial decline to artistic use. In direct collaboration with these materials she tells stories and creates images of both demolition sites and those who work transforming them. Artist Hilary Powell examines the material components of the demolition site (from zinc to copper, steel, concrete, brick, asbestos, lime mortar, cement, lead and slate).

Urban alchemy