2004 - 2005

…and the time is now

Documentation of installations in Durham and Ely

Part of Silkthreads

This exhibition project was the result of research made during a fifteen-month trip along the Silk Road.

The main focus of the exhibition was a bank of old analogue televisions showing five separate video sequences. The videos contained moving image and stills collected during the Silk Road journey, these images and films were also related to objects in the Museum.

There was also a soundscape, made up of field recordings from the fifteen-month trip. This was heard on speakers and emanating from pre-recordable megaphones. The piece was inspired by the Sunday Market in Hotan, Western China.

A number of photographs taken during the trip formed a link with the museum collection. At Babylon, the work was contextualised by a display of silk from the Silk Museum in Macclesfield and a projected image of displays from The Oriental Museum.

At the opening of the exhibition there was a performance work, using sounds from Ely and from the Silk Road played from the pre-recordable megaphones.