SWANDOWN ORDNANCE AND SURVEYING

(INSTALLATION) November – December 2010
Regency Town House – Brighton - Sussex

This Installation was commissioned through CineCity 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, France where I was living and teaching when I edited IVUL.

In collaboration with Julien Lesage we produced a limited edition of 7 Swanbooks (customised plastic swan shaped decoys) 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.