Capteur
Age ten, I became trapped in the Community Charge demonstrations in Trafalgar Square, more commonly known as the Poll Tax Riots. Capteur (2019-2020) is a multi-form expanded essayistic work that recounts my personal passage and memories of the conflict, violence, and trauma, plus the political context of the Poll Tax Riot on March 31st, 1990. Capteur is a series of inter-related essayistic works, including theoretical texts, factual autobiographical texts and fictionalised texts written under a series of textual writing constraints, maps, images, models, collages, moving images, algorithms and coded works, sound works, audio recordings, performative collages and gestures. On the 29th anniversary I re-walked the route of the demonstration.
Capteur - Installation View
Capteur - Triptych Display
Architectural Assemblages based on demonstration placards and cinematic and studio flats
The Ghost Walk - I walked the route of the Poll Tax demonstration on the 29th anniversary
Association of Chief Police Officers Manual of Guidance for Public Order Training
Algorithmic testimony - the sounds and images for the installation view and triptych above are driven by an algorithm which means the audio visual edited pattern is continually reconstructed and endless
Architectural Assemblages, support structures and collage cutouts
West Riding Riot Reenactment Society
Restaging Archival Photographs and Memory
Japanese Joinery