Flickers
Place-based paper films // community embedded installation
Paper flick-books navigating audiences along outdoor routes. Mutoscope installations as hand-cranked Augmented Reality.
Image by Pekka Mäkinen shows a participant on a flick book navigated journey on Puijo Hill, Kuopio, Finland during ANTI Festival
Participants navigate outdoor routes using sets of paper flickbooks shot from the point of view of the walker. The hands-on flick through the pages to see the way ahead shows how the landscape reels past as you walk it.
What people say:
"...like a treasure hunt where the treasure is all around you and in your hand." Participant, Brighton Festival
"... a unique kind of visual performance which is as much about the internal landscape of the viewer as the place they are in." Liz Whitehead, Fabrica
"..a massive hit with the public…" Art Monthly
"FanTastically inventive and deeply charming." Co-director, ANTI Festival
"I loved the fact that I had to 'walk' to move and 'do' in order to discover the story ..." participant, Brighton festival
"I felt like I was 7 years old again!" participant, brighton festival
A flick book navigated walk in Stanmer Park, Brighton
"It's like a treasure hunt where the treasure is all around you and in your hand." Audience member, Brighton Festival
"I loved the fact that I had to 'walk' to move and 'do' in order to discover the story ..." Audience member, Brighton Festival
Flickers: Off the Path opens a window to the presence of those who keep hidden but leave evidence: fence eating trees, a lost wall in the middle of a wood, a t-shirt at the mouth of a fox hole. It explores the urge to be of a landscape, rooted there looking out, with the discovery that it is not a comfortable place to be.
"I loved the fact that I had to 'walk' to move and 'do' in order to discover the story ..." Audience member, Brighton Festival
Flickers: Off the Path opens a window to the presence of those who keep hidden but leave evidence: fence eating trees, a lost wall in the middle of a wood, a t-shirt at the mouth of a fox hole. It explores the urge to be of a landscape, rooted there looking out, with the discovery that it is not a comfortable place to be.
Commissioned by Brighton Festival 2010
A flick book navigated journey
Flickers: ANTI navigates a landscape at the end of the world. The water rises behind you as you climb through ancient spruce woods, negotiating stranded ships and fallen trees, to the last remaining high point, a 1960's observation tower (complete with revolving restaurant), the iconic symbol of Kuopio.
‘..a massive hit with the public…’ Art Monthly
‘Fantastically inventive and deeply charming.’ ANTI Contemporary Art Festival
'Like the end of the world but it's comforting.' Audience member, ANTI Festival
'I will see ships and water floating every I walk there.' Audience member, ANTI Festival
Commissioned by ANTI Festival of Contemporary Art, 2009 with support from the Cultural Programme of the European Commission, ‘A Space for Live Art.’
Documenting Making Ground, a collaboration between ceramicist Elaine Bolt, willow worker Annemarie O'Sullivan on community owned land at Sacred Earth, a former brickworks.
I filmed the choreographies of making in place and created new physical and digital ways of triggering the persistance of vision illusion that animates an image sequence into moving-image.
This included: tugged mutoscopes on loops of cloth, a cranked triptych of mutoscopes in a brick mould found at the site, and digital interactives co-designed with Neil Manuell: swiping a touch screen or walking towards a projection.
We showed at Make Lewes Festival and as part of a Making Space Residency at Fabrica.
Mutoscope installations in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
Residency and research into the effect of unmade environments on the people who use them.
Working with people who work and play in the Park including Grounded Ecotherapy and Bow Beasties, I held photo-animation workshops and walked with park usersto make a series of flickerscope sequences shown in situ.
Close on a hundred people per hour cranked the machines, (plus film director Danny Boyle).
The project was hosted by Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park and showed at Shuffle Festival and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park Summer Fair, 2015.
Funded by Grants for the Arts, Nightingale Theatre, and Home Live Art
Flickers: Up the Wall
A flick book navigated night walk
Flickers is a night walk along the city wall; a mini-thriller told in flickering images.
Hide in places you feel unsafe. Lie in wait. In your hand is a flick book, a guide in the dark. As you flick the pages, animated images of the real environment reveal what happens next.
Commissioned by Chester Performs
A flick book navigated walk
Greenwich Fair Flickers is a journey through Greenwich Park layered with an imagining of Greenwich Fair of 1836. Tumble down the hill, fall in with some chance-met frequenters. In your hand is a flick book. As you flick the pages, animated images of the real environment reveal what happens next.
Image editing, post processing and layout by Neil Manuell
Image editing, post processing and layout by Neil Manuell
Music by Mike Simmonds. Performers: Eva Dauros, Claire Raftery, Damian Wright, Sarah Leaver, Neil Manuell, Mike Simmonds and Hazel Maddox
Commissioned by Greenwich and Docklands International Festival 2011
A flick book navigated night walk
A night-walk from the depths of a neglected underground car park to the sea-edge and on, juxtaposing this marginal space with the utopia of being ‘beside the seaside, beside the sea’.
With performer Miriam King and sound by Jason Pegg and Thor McIntyre-Burnie.
Commissioned by Brighton and Hove City Council for White Night 2011.
With performer Miriam King and sound by Jason Pegg and Thor McIntyre-Burnie.
Commissioned by Brighton and Hove City Council for White Night 2011.
Flickers: undercurrent
A flick book navigated walk
A journey across Shoreham Footbridge, in the last days before its demolition and replacement.
Commissioned for Undercurrent Weekend, Shoreham-on-sea, UK, 2011.
Funded by Grants for the Arts