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Thank you everyone who came along to CLASSWAROOM on 3 June for my publication launch and the screening of Eric Lamptey's edit of my RISK MANAGEMENT EXERCISE performance. It can be seen in the Video section of the site.

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Site/Ad-Site, Ongoing:

Site/Ad-Site is a public-realm photographic work that playfully explores the passing of time, gentrification, and the relationship between public and private interest in the London neighbourhoods. It is co-authored by Adrian Lee and Nick Ferguson.

The work makes use of advertising space on the front of cigarette bins affixed to the front building througt London. The bins belong to a set of 17,000 that were installed ‘for free’ throughout London by the courier firm Addison Lee in 2007, but which were in 2012 banned by some local authorities after questions were raised about their townscape impact. Site/Ad-Site responds to this narrative. Referencing the registers of architectural surveying, as well as the tradition of mise-en-abime in which a picture recursively appears within itself. Each abandoned bin has been photographed to produce an in-situ elevation, and the printed image then inserted into the former advertising space, before being re-photographed. For as long as they are left in situ, the images will provide a record of the street frontage in a time of rapid urban change.

Above is a map of the Adbins within 500 metres of Kings Cross station that were used for the Site/Ad-Site and tour for ArtNight '19 on 22 June 2019. The addresses of the bins are:

1 . Express Cafe . 130 York Way N1 0AX...............................REMOVED
2 . Express Cafe . 130 York Way N1 0AX ..............................REMOVED
3 . Easy Off Licence 62 Caledonian Road N19DT
4 . HOME Shelter . 54 Caledonian Road N19DT
5 . Addis Restaurant 41 Caledonian Road N19DT
6 . Paolina Restaurant 181 Kings Cross Road WC1X9BZ
7 . Food & Wine Store 1 Wicklow Street............................. DESTROYED
8 . Hurricane Rooms . 275 Pentonville Road N19NL
9 . Excelsior Hotel . 42 Argyle Square WC1H8AL
10. Excelsior Hotel . 42 Argyle Square WC1H8AL
11. Wardonia Hotel . 46 Argyle Street WC1H8ER
12. Apollo Hotel . 43 Argyle Street WC1H8EP...................... REMOVED
13. The Globe Hotel . 36 Argyle Street WC1H8EN
14. The Florida Hotel . 22 Argyle Street WC1H8EN
15. Humaira Restaurant . 112 Judd Street WC1H9NT.......... REMOVED
16 . Supermarket . 92 Cromer Street.................................... REMOVED
17 . Kings Laundrette . 114 Cromer Street WC1H8BS
18 . Motijheet Restaurant 53A Marchmont Street WC1N1AP
19 The Judd Hotel . 46 Cartwright Gardens WC1H9EL.........REMOVED
20 . Avonmore Hotel . 57 Cartwright Gardens WC1H9EL
21 . Supermarket . 98 Chalton Street
22 . Office . 57 Chalton Street
23 . Cheezelo. 46 Chalton Street
24 . Mai Sushi . 38 Chalton Street NW1 1JB
25 . Gentle Dentists . 36 Chalton Street
26 . Albertini Restaurant . 16-20 Chalton St NW1 1JH
27 . Albertini Restaurant . 16-20 Chalton St NW1 1JH

Original Audit date: 28 December 2018