SWANDOWN ORDNANCE AND SURVEYING
(INSTALLATION) December – January 2010
Herbert Read Gallery – Canterbury – Kent

This Installation was commissioned through the UCA and The Creative Campus Initiative in which we presented various artifacts pertaining to a series of walks I made with Iain Sinclair from Hastings to Hackney.

I carried a swan decoy throughout and wore a swandown suit. The suit was made in Le Fresnoy where I was living and teaching when I edited IVUL.

In collaboration with Julien Lesage we produced a limited edition of 7 plastic swan decoy Swanbooks which contained maps, writings and photographs.

Two students from UCA; Rob Bernard and Anonymous Bosch accompanied us and produced both moving image sequences of sections from the walk as well as pin-hole photographs, all of which were exhibited.

We were ostensibly beating the bounds and testing the waters for a proposed feature film.