Transforming documentary footage from the 9.11 NY attacks in 2001, this piece explores the dimension of the split-screen to align visual and political dislocations. The "event" comes to us through the media, thus becoming a spectral experience conveyed through the mechanical horizon of our television screens. The work embodies the viewer and the viewed - the mesmerised stare of an onlooker situated next to the chaotic vortex of people. The sound is a collage created from the immediate event. The historic and histrionic contend with one another. This queries how we encounter our realities, through the blurring of two time horizons: the natural and the virtual. As onlookers of the spectacle through somebody else's eyes, we are a further remove from the event itself. This distancing subjects us to a kind of soporific immersion, passive and nightmarish, and like transfixed viewers we are spectators of the spectral.
Video installation exhibited in Dans la Nuit des Images, Gramd Palais, Paris 2008
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid video-library espace consultation 2006/2007
Touching Land, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury UK 2005
