False ceiling, soft and very low ceiling - so impossible to stand up. Intimate under a giant white sheet
Eleven (- a team full) of wheeled, revolvable office chairs to sit on and circulate on
Everyone on the same level. Everyone mobile and constrained.
Part parachute game, part planetarium, part night club, part office.
Navigate in that social space by what is written in the stars.
Advice helpful but contradictory. Wise but impractical.
That thing you don't like about me does not matter
Don't look at the floor, Don't look at the ceiling
I don't mind being ignored because it means I can see how people behave when they think I'm not there
Text of projections too large to read from one spot, without manipulation of the projection screen ceiling. Such movement of the sheet effecting the efforts of others under the sheet to read other parts.
Passing low, dark ceiling, through small doorway, each new obstacle or chamber making the visitor further from the outside world, more self aware and more aware of others, safer but more trapped. The dead end layout means re-navigating each chamber and obstacle to reconsider its content in the light of the previously consequent.
Backstage, the behind the scenes warren of an entertainment venue. Office letters on a bed. The solitary act of a correspondenc. Squalid but cosy chamber with no risk of brusing from the excitables on the mingling chairs. Quiter here, further from the hairdressers' music. Looking onto a ballon storage chamber, potential fun. Reading insurance literature before dozens of potential audio accidents.
video compilation comprising (all 1997)
Ideal Speeches Attempt One 3min 25 sec
Leaping - collaboration with T.Skeleton clip one 15 sec
Ideal Speeches Attempt Two 3min 25 sec
Leaping - collaboration with T.Skeleton clip two 15 sec
Talking Between The Lines (45 seconds in the Crystal Dome) 1 min
Leaping - collaboration with T.Skeleton clip three 15 sec
Talking Between The Lines (nature documentary) 3 min
