notes from a working journal..
A train rolls into London's Brixton and a day's videoshoot kicks off this urban experience. I look for poetry in the mundane, celebrated in the politics of graffiti or the sounds of the street: market voices, street dancing, an overhead train or a screaming siren, fused with other sounds and smells.. someone hacking raw meat.. crushing coffee beans, mincing spices, frying early breakfast.. This territory is a nomadic trajectory of fluid "crossroads" where people traffic through, stop, take root and stratify, and then move on. Camera in hand, myself the traveller, I am both insider and outsider. Deterritorialised space is questioned through a sense of the itinerary - the multistrata of society on the move, richly varied, convivial, yet dislocated and risky at the same time. This multilayering is matched to the dynamics of the screen; a synthesis of disjunctions, examining also the boundaries of the outsider in its gaps, splits and ruptures. The film taps into the urban rhythms of a slice of city, aligning these into the spatial segmentation of my timeline. In this sense the piece choreographs time and movement into durée, contemplating video as performance. And the jig ends as the journey begins… to the beat of my thoughts and my train, drumming and tumbling out of the Brixton tube.. Exhibition intro >
