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details from my installation, If We Still Existed, 2009. Exhibited at PICA in HATCHED 2010.

 If We Still Existed is an interactive audio installation using out dated technologies, old furniture and artist books. The room is completely dark, except for the unshaded lamp that casts strange shadows on the walls. The furniture is grouped into five backdrops, each plays host to an artist book with an accompanying audiotape. The hand bound, cloth covered artist books are text-based and created from thread, tape, watercolour and pen.

The intention is for the audio tapes to be operated by the viewer, changing their role from spectator to performer. In their interaction with the piece multiple stories are played at once creating a disjointed narrative with an eerie chorus of voices. 

Integrating fact with fiction I humanise the Dinosaur into a contemporary atmosphere, one in which these mysterious, extinct creatures have learnt society’s sensitivities, eccentricities and vices. In a whimsical and humorous way I explore internal narratives, the inconsistencies between our thoughts and actions.