Manoeuvre – Camerawork Gallery London. 1994
Dyson was commissioned as part of the ‘Manouevre’ collaboration with artists Dean Brannagan and Tim Brennan as ‘Manoeuvre’. She constructed two works;
‘Dimensions for living’ is a sculptural installation that takes the crude dimensions applied by architects and engineers in the building of public sector housing; the ‘average’ washing machine, television, wheel chair, infant or adult male. Each proportion was represented by a simplified cubic unit.
‘Guidelines’ took the audience through a live experience, sited in the east end and Dock Lands neighbourhood near to the gallery. In a fleet of black cabs the audience were taken from Roman Road to Canary Wharf. The artist informed each site that they visited with found historic texts and poetic writings on the origins of classical architecture, the nature of communal space and relationship between private and public.
