Just visible at the top of the Pier Head passenger ramp (which leads down to the Ferry landing stage) can be seen conical a 'tent-like structure'. This taught canopy gave the otherwise nondescript building the look of a small pavilion. It housed the visitors' centre which dispensed Ferry Across the Mersey tickets and replaced an earlier prefabricated ferry complex which had dated from the 1960's. This small 'pavilion' was dismantled within the last year or so prior to the excavation of a brand new section of canal beneath the 'Three Graces'. Other major construction is still in progress there. The following post is a pinhole photograph I made on Christmas Day 2008. Evidence that a new ferry building is under construction can be seen to the right.
Photograph: Looking up river from the old (now dismantled) Princes landing stage. April 1991.
The e-space lab project is exploring how internet connections between people in diverse urban and international contexts can enable a dialogue that helps make more meaningful a reciprocal representation of what the conditions of actual everyday life in different places really are. Many of the ideas, illusions and misrepresentations that shape our understanding of where and how other people live in places different from our own can fall away in this kind of dialogue, and also be replaced by a live and ongoing pattern of multiple alternative representations. The forms that we use range from the human voice (by Skype or phone), text, text messages, and images produced by digital cameras and mobile phones, video of course, and even to web pages and podcasts. We like to engage with these forms in a process of dialogue and exchange, using whatever resources are available, and exploring the potential of new tools as they come on stream, especially streaming video. As artists we are especially interested in the role the arts play in valuing practices and the human qualities that shape everyday life in the different places we find ourselves.
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