Stella Brennan

Theme For Great Cities (2003)

3 minutes 7 secondsSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

“Urbanism is the most concrete and perfect fulfilment of a nightmare…”

A part of Three Cities (2003–2006), a series of videos by Stella Brennan featuring readings of polemics by famous architects, in which robotic voices narrate flyovers of constructed cityscapes.

Te pūranga karere me ngā ara mahi houOther works in this series

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