{"id":19757,"date":"2020-06-11T14:15:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19757"},"modified":"2020-06-11T14:15:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:15:24","slug":"lockdown-elevation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/06\/11\/lockdown-elevation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown elevation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The post this week included a poster print by Toby Melville-Brown<\/a>, an artistic response to the lockdown of April and May. Toby has a colourful graphic style that favours architectural views in the mode of Archigram and other futurists, past and present; at the end of February I featured one of his invented book covers (below) in a weekend post. The title of the cover\u2014Notes from a Troubled Rock<\/em>\u2014seemed darkly humorous at a time of political turmoil and a growing pandemic. Four months on it reads like a summary of 2020.<\/p>\n

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The lockdown poster, Life Indoors: A Cross-Section<\/em>, is more positive, a cutaway elevation of a high-rise block, with each apartment showing the response of a real person or group of people to the viral situation. To fill out the rooms Toby sent an email to 175 households asking for a photographic reflection of lockdown life. I’m in one of the rooms but if you want to know where you’ll have to buy a copy of the poster which is available here<\/a>. All profits go to Refuge<\/a>, a charity supporting those at risk from domestic violence. When I first moved to Manchester I spent four years in a Brutalist flatblock that would have had JG Ballard’s wealthy high-rise denizens fleeing for the suburbs. Toby’s elevation looks like a better place to be.<\/p>\n

(And I’ve just been informed that the poster sale will end at midnight [UK time] on Friday 12th June.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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