Anna's reading session (Adam Chodzko)

Yesterday we had a reading with Anna in the AirSpace Museum. I was a really good afternoon because we didn't just read through the piece of text we also went out to the Hanley bus station!
Before we went to the reading group with Anna, we were asked to read the text from Adam Chodzko and also bring along a text that relates or opposes it.
When reading the text from Chodzko, it was interesting because he was exploring the ideas of public spaces and how people interact within them etc. So, when I started looking for an artist or text that could either relate or oppose to the Chodzko text, I thought back to the first semester when I was looking at Micheal Landy. The piece of text that I chose which relates to the Chodzko text is a overview of an exhibition from Landy called 'Breakdown'. 'Breakdown' was where he was situated in a major shopping part in London and occupied a shop and started to destroy all of his things (including other artists artworks). This was a relation because Chodzko talked about there's looking and then there's looking for something, I believe that Landy was looking for that something which would change thought processes of his viewers.
We started to discuss that people are becoming so unaware of things out in open spaces because everyone is always in a rush!
The second part of the session was going out and seeing the old Hanley bus station. Anna had shown us a few pictures beforehand highlighting what it looked like before when it was built in the 60's. When we got down there I realized that alot can change over a few years and some places can become neglected and people do walk past oblivious because they are always in a rush.
Here are a few pictures of what the bus station looks like now and also what the new bus station will be like:

Each section of the old bus station now looks abandoned and grotty where at one time it would have been lively and a god place to be!

This is the new bus station which is being built:

This new bus stop is being made and looks like a very modern building.

Once we had a walk around the bus station we were set a task, the task was to use a picture that you have taken from the walk to the bus station and draw on top of it something that will make the place look more interesting or inviting.

This was a really good reading session! Very fun!