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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.
 V2 on Abbot Gardens by Nick Scammell...On 15 November1944 a V2-rocket landed on houses in Abbots Gardens, killing 5 people, including 2 children... |  V2 on Abbot Gardens by Nick Scammell...To mark tragedy a performance on the small traffic island nearby will see piano wire around the two trees... |  V2 on Abbot Gardens by Nick Scammell... I had a plan, collected and dried the leaves, wrote the names of victims on them, but I left a lot to chance (both deliberately and through incompetence) so that much was decided in the moment, as I was building... |
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 V2 on Abbot Gardens by Nick Scammell...I saw the project in entirely un-photographic terms - as an ephemeral construction/performance... |  V2 on Abbot Gardens by Nick Scammell...Residents have raised a small mosaic memorial on the grass verge, in honour |
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11th November 2013
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