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Pankof Bank were commissioned by the Hayward Gallery to make a contemporary contribution to their 2006 exhibition Undercover Surrealism on Surrealist writer Georges Bataille and his magazine DOCUMENTS.
Pankof Bank proposed an underground pavilion, a counterpoint to Dan Graham’s Waterloo Sunset and Starbucks Cafe stacked directly above and connected via lift, provocatively entitled Another Waste of Space. Occupying part of the car park, the guts beneath the Hayward, the space was conceived as a ‘communication vessel’ for the radical and shocking ideas presented by Bataille, who explored the sanitisation and loss of urban sensuality in nineteenth century Paris.
The pavilion was to be part of the exhibition as well as being freely-open to the public and would host a series of events run by the Hayward Public Programmes department to present the hidden world of Bataille. As the Hayward’s contribution to Architecture Week and the London Architecture Biennale, the focus of this experimental space was on the relationship between the public realm, corporate sponsorship and our national arts institutions.
ANOTHER
WASTE OF SPACE
Hayward Gallery, London
Unrealised, 2006