Lindsay Rothwell

16'6"

2018- 2019

Medium: Video with sound; 3D model

Dimensions: 8:08 mins; 16x9 aspect ratio

Price: Upon request

Description: Using the language and tools of architecture, 16’6” explores the embedded memories held within a space, and uses the architectural model as a container for human memory. Considering the house as an extension of the self, Rothwell uses the planes of the room to destabilize the normative authority of single-point perspective, and to unpack the layers of memory and culture embedded in our walls. In the Middle Ages, English landowners divided their lands with 16’6” rods. Sixteen and a half feet designated the space one serf was expected to work. 1000 years later in Victorian London, thousands of terraced houses were built for the working and middle classes. Each house was 16’6” wide. These buildings still stand.