Re:pair
Site-responsive installation commissioned by Hole & Corner during the 2019 Port Elliot Festival, Cornwall.
This piece developed from a re-reading of ‘The Poetics of Space’ by Gaston Bachelard, that hymn to the comforting nooks and shelters we were drawn to as children.
The goal was to lift out of the familiarity of the event a space which could not be glossed over or skim-read. To open up a space which required a slow form of consideration and to draw people into this other soundscape, this cocoon which could reawaken their stolen childhood moments and the daydreams they built inside them.
Artists Tim Gray and Stephanie Buttle. The inspiration was to bring a multi-disciplinary evolving experience to the festival folk of Port Elliot – the artists reappropriated a circa 1960 ‘Spite’ caravan – symbolic of a very British family summer holiday and sunk the vehicle into the ground and hand stitched a snug felt sheath around the entire exterior profile and interior of the caravan. During the day the interior was open to the public to sit upon the double theatre seats bolted onto the now sloping floor to experience a sound scape of the Finnish Spring time whilst looking out of a landscape window onto a view of the sky. During the evening an 8mm edited film of B/W found footage was projected out of the caravan’s window.
