With Covid-19 ravaging populations and the World trying to come to terms with lockdown reality, it seems an appropriate moment to reactivate this Platform-7 project from 2013 exploring the trauma that follows on from a sudden shocking change in circumstance.
10 at Albany Rd by Mathews & Johnson
Cassandra Mathews & Ally Johnson
...Our intervention was entitled 10 At Albany Road in order to pay respect to the 10 victims deceased in World War I at this particular site...
10 at Albany Rd by Mathews & Johnson
Cassandra Mathews & Ally Johnson
...It has been a huge learning curve working on the Silent Cacophony project for both of us...
10 at Albany Rd by Mathews & Johnson
Cassandra Mathews & Ally Johnson
...Over the space of 4 days, Ally cut out 4000 minuscule Zeppelins!...
10 at Albany Rd by Mathews & Johnson
Cassandra Mathews & Ally Johnson
...Zeppelin confetti exploding visually at the sound of 10 harmonics played on the guitar...
10 at Albany Rd by Mathews & Johnson
Cassandra Mathews & Ally Johnson
...part of the creative purpose of the event, as so much effort had been put into something that would simply be thrown away, much like the futility of war...
10 at Albany Rd by Mathews & Johnson
Cassandra Mathews & Ally Johnson
...white Zeppelin confetti ...
10 at Albany Rd by Mathews & Johnson
Cassandra Mathews & Ally Johnson
...It was wonderful to see that some motorists were clearly taking an interest in what we were staging...
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