Lion Fragment Bell, Institute for Imagined Futures & Unknown Lands, MA Show, MA Social Sculpture, Oxford Brookes University, 2012
This was a sister project to When the moon fell out of orbit it transformed the bell tower from the gallery in Swansea into a sleeping platform in this Oxford version. The space was created from physically engaging with the building in different ways - sleeping in the space, creating a white boat out of paper mâché that i sailed around the looped corridors at night when there was nobody around, and working with the ‘tools’ kept in the tin on the table. There were also more ‘obvious’ performances for audiences including telling stories of journeys from the Institute for Imagined Futures & Unknown Lands and also bringing a huge lump of clay from Swansea bay to Oxford which i tread one evening to a live audience in the space telling them the story of the origin of the colour of the blue of that clay.
There was a focus on my relationship with the lion of knidos, exhibited in the great hall of the British Museum where I would imagine walking alongside the lion in my everyday life to see how that would have an effect on me.
