Agree,Disagree, Not sure

AGREE/DISAGREE/NOT SURE

Allan Forrester Parker

AGREE/DISAGREE/NOT SUREIn AGREE/DISAGREE/NOT SURE statements similar to those used in Psychometric tests are placed in conjunction with landscape pictures and images of installations found throughout Britain and occasionally abroad.

Psychometric tests are given to individuals to assess their suitability for certain types of work. The tests are designed to expose personality traits which may have been overlooked during interviews.

There are many such tests and in general respondents are asked to “agree” or “disagree” by ticking boxes beside various statements. Typically, a test may contain around four of five hundred such statements. The results are then evaluated and the conclusions are fed back to the respondents or to their potential employers.

In many of the following images we see the landscape either as a creation in its own right or as fulfilling a designated function. In a crowded country the landscape is obliged to accommodate the interests and aspirations of its citizens – which are frequently in conflict with one another.

THESE DAYS PEOPLE JUST DON’T TAKE THINGS SERIOUSLY ENOUGH

mOST cOUNTRIES WOULD BE mUcH BETTER OFF AS DEmOcRAcIES

I THINK I Am mORE STRIcT ABOUT RIGHT AND WRONG THAN mOST PEOPLE

FANTASY IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE HUmAN PSYcHE

I HAVE NO REAL IDEA OF HOW THE FUTURE BEcOmES THE PAST

ON THE WHOLE I PREFER ROmANTIc FIcTION TO ADVENTURE STORIES

IT cAN BE DIFFIcULT TO cONVINcE SOmE PEOPLE OF THE TRUTH

SOmETImES I PRETEND TO KNOW mORE THAN I REALLY DO

SUccESS IS mAINLY A mATTER OF WILLPOWER

IT’S OK TO GET AROUND THE LAW AS LONG AS YOU DON’T AcTUALLY BREAK IT

I Am FAScINATED BY FIRE

FROm TImE TO TImE I HAVE DREAmS THAT ARE BEST KEPT TO mYSELF

IT IS BEST NOT TO THINK TOO DEEPLY ABOUT cERTAIN THINGS

DISOBEDIENcE TO ANY GOVERNmENT IS NEVER JUSTIFIED

DISOBEDIENcE TO ANY GOVERNmENT IS NEVER JUSTIFIED

I GET ANXIOUS IF I THINK THINGS ARE GETTING OUT OF cONTROL

I WOULD LIKE TO mAKE A GREAT DIScOVERY

SOmE THINGS ARE JUST BEYOND THE UNDERSTANDING OF ORDINARY PEOPLE

I FIND IT TO HARD TO START A cONVERSATION WITH SOmEONE I DON’T KNOW

EVERY SO OFTEN I FEEL AS IF SOmETHING BAD IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN

I LIKE READING ABOUT HISTORY

AGREE/DISAGREE/NOT SURE

This book accompanies the exhibition:

Terrain Vague: enchantment, dysfunction and the landscape

26 July – 25 August, 2007

Whitecross Gallery, 122 Whitecross street, London EC1Y 8PU

+44 (0)207 253 4252 www.whitecrossgallery.com info@whitecrossgallery.com

all photographs © Allan Forrester Parker

Tel: 020 7831 7094 www.allanforresterparker.co.uk

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