Supplementary material
Assembly can be viewed at: vimeo.com/showcase/8120594 and on the artists’ website https://site-integrity.com/projects/assembly/ and Virtual Assembly, organised by the Muslim Council of Britain can be viewed https://site-integrity.com/projects/virtual-assembly/
Three British Mosques, Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/la-biennale-di-venezia-2021
Marsh, J. Saleem, S., Turner, C. and Kilgallon, E. (ed.) 2021. British Mosques. Foolscap Editions.
Marsh, J, ‘Site-integrity’, Journal for Artistic Research, Issue 19 (2019)
Nomination for a 2019 award from Art and Christianity, a leading UK organisation in the field of visual art and religion.
Physical artefacts ad books
Assembly exhibition catalogue for site-performance at Brick Lane Mosque, including an introduction from William Raban (LCC), an essay response from Matt Webber (UCL) and Dervla Zaynab Shannahan and Naima Khan from Inclusive Mosque Initiative.
British Mosques, a publication to accompany the V&A special project at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021. Includes an overview of the Assembly research project/findings edited by architect Shahed Saleem, Chris Turner (V&A) and Ella Kilgallon (V&A).
Portfolio items
Related videos
| Creators | Marsh, J. |
|---|---|
| Description | Made in collaboration with the different mosque congregations, Assembly uses a programmed device mounted on a six-metre motorised rig. Gliding back and forth on the rig, the device is both “recorder” and “player”: at the end of a shoot, the camera is replaced by a projector and the “film” is ready for playback. The work does more than reproduce prayer: it also “performs” the social and religious structures of the site, making evocative use of 5.1 surround sound to create an uncanny experience. Mapped precisely to the mosque floor, the projected image of the carpet disappears into the real carpet. And the congregation, returning as observers, watch ghostly illusions of themselves at prayer. |
| Portfolio items | Site-integrity: a dynamic exchange between site, artist, device and audience |
| Assembly: Performing the materiality of Muslim prayer spaces | |
| Virtual Assembly | |
| 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale - Three British Mosques/Assembly | |
| British Mosques | |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publisher | University of Westminster |
| Web address (URL) | https://vimeo.com/showcase/8120594/ |
| Keywords | CREAM Portfolio |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.34737/v844y |
