Remains to be seen : a study of unfinished projects
This thesis considers the imprint of unfinished work upon cultural history. It asks how one might record, interpret and situate abandoned and unfinished works within critical discourse. It explores the various opportunities they present to both disrupt and imaginatively develop existing perspectives on cultural production, the creative process, and the intellectual construction of everyday life. Discussing a range of unfinished projects from literature, film and architecture kept in public archives, this study attempts to find a renewed poetics of abandoned work that can displace the melancholy selectivity that pervades the topic. In addition to this, the project hopes to contribute to growing discourses on archives, ruins and fragments, where a consideration of the remains of unfinished work would broaden and problematise these conversations. The introduction considers the critical and cultural history of leaving work unfinished, identifying various critical motifs and absences that this project can address. The first chapter examines the legacy of an unfinished socialist city planned and partially built in 1914 called Llano del Rio; exploring how the abandoned settlement is mediated through its archival
Harle, Matthew
Remains to be seen : a study of unfinished projects. This thesis considers the imprint of unfinished work upon cultural history. It asks how one might record, interpret and situate abandoned and unfinished works within critical discourse. It explores the various opportunities they present to both disrupt and imaginatively develop existing perspectives on cultural production, the creative process, and the intellectual construction of everyday life. Discussing a range of unfinished projects from literature, film and architecture kept in public archives, this study attempts to find a renewed poetics of abandoned work that can displace the melancholy selectivity that pervades the topic. In addition to this, the project hopes to contribute to growing discourses on archives, ruins and fragments, where a consideration of the remains of unfinished work would broaden and problematise these conversations. The introduction considers the critical and cultural history of leaving work unfinished, identifying various critical motifs and absences that this project can address. The first chapter examines the legacy of an unfinished socialist city planned and partially built in 1914 called Llano del Rio; exploring how the abandoned settlement is mediated through its archival
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