Unified Nobson (2001)

Paul Noble

DVD projection

MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), Teeside University

Classification:

Moving Image

Materials:

DVD projection

Dimensions:

3 minutes

Accession Number:

MIDMA-FA-1188

Credit:

Purchased through the Contemporary Art Society Special Collection Scheme with Lottery funding from Arts Council England, 2001/02

Scheme:

Special Collection Scheme (1997-2004): Fine Art

Ownership history:

Purchased from Maureen Paley, London by the Contemporary Art Society through its Special Collections Scheme, with the aid of Arts Council Lottery funding, 7 November 2001; presented to MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, 2002

Relationship:

Maureen Paley, London MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), Teeside University

Subject:

Urban, Nightmares

The town depicted in Paul Noble's DVD projection Unified Nobson (2001) is a figment of the artist's imagination, a fictitious construct that he has been elaborating over several years in a series of highly detailed drawings. This is a vision of town planning at its nightmarish worst, a place built in a bewildering array of styles and betraying many signs of dysfunction and decay. Tellingly, its human inhabitants remain invisible. The ironic title of the piece references the suburban new towns dreamed up by architects and developed by planners in the 1960s and 1970s. The widely acknowledged shortcomings of such new-town developments as Billingham, Thornaby and Peterlee in the North East makes Noble's work particularly relevant to Middlesbrough's collection.

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