© Nicola Chan     
Nicola Chi-Hay Chan (b. 1994 in London) is a multidisciplinary artist, architectural designer, and maker. Her work seeks to blur the boundaries between art and architecture, investigating rituals and cultural norms through speculative narratives. She works through tactile, intuitive analogue processes in dialogue with the digital tools of her architectural background. She is also committed to widening access to art and the spaces that govern it, mentoring with Arts Emergency and co-founding Jack Draw Me Like, a community life-drawing club in Hackney. Alongside her own practice, she has taught at The Bartlett School of Architecture and been a guest critic at Oxford Brookes School of Architecture. She currently works at Do Ho Suh Studio as Architecture and Research Lead.
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06.Every Nook and Cranny

Produced at The Bartlett School of Architecture
2019


Video, digital render, cotton, organza, threadVariable installation

Every Nook and Cranny combines video and sculpture to interrogate the rigidity of the spaces we occupy, exploring the possibilities of an alternative methodology of space-making and inhabitation. Following a research and process-led approach, the project draws upon existing methods of garment-making in questioning our acceptance of western traditions of monolithic structure-building that render our architecture immovable and unadaptable. Through this lens, the work imagines a hyperbolic fragmented world of fluid fabrics and garment as architecture. 

1/1    Every Nook and Cranny, 2019. Digital animation, single-Channel video, 0:55

1/3    Every Nook and Cranny, 2019, cotton, organza, thread
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1/2    Every Nook and Cranny, 2019, cotton, organza, thread
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1/2    Every Nook and Cranny, 2019, cotton, organza, thread
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1/2    Every Nook and Cranny, 2019, cotton, organza, thread
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1/3    Every Nook and Cranny, 2019, digital render
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3/3    Every Nook and Cranny, 2019, digital render