Through The Wall

Through the Wall was a six channel video installation commissioned by Chester Performs for their annual Up The Wall festival of art.

Sited on the Roman Walls within the Roman Gardens, Through the Wall was inspired by the surface of the Chester walls and by the (metaphorical) potential of re-orienting the flow of movement through and into the history of the walls themselves. At three sites in the Roman Gardens, double-sided video projections (i.e., projection on both sides of the wall in the same place, at the same time) played on short loops that linked with each other. Viewed from a distance, a viewer would see a set of three wanderers moving from one frame to another stopping to look at the scenery of places that have a real or imagined link to the walls themselves (such as the Great Wall of China, Mount Snowdon and 10 Downing Street).