Solo-exhibition in 2006 at Chapter, (Cardiff, UK). Exhibition Info. Curator: Hannah Firth

Also included in Mirror Neurons at National Glass Centre, Sunderland, 2012 ,as Recall From Memory The Space Of Another Gallery. Curator: Sarah Cook

R&D (with Dr. Vaughan Bell, Kings College London & Maudsley Hospital) Funded by The Wellcome Trust. Production funded by Arts Council Wales

Description

Ostensibly, this was an artwork that developed a strong awareness in its participants of the various 'spaces' of contemporary art.  Gallery Space Recall invoked and enabled a layering or nesting of spaces – whether of the immediate materiality of the exhibition hall,  the imaginaries of 'artworlds' and their social organization, or the architectural spaces of other art institutions. These various conceptions of space are experienced simultaneously in this work, producing various dissonances between 'the here and now' of the performance and other spaces as they are remembered and imagined. As Boris Groys claims, there is potential in this kind of work to produce a public that becomes aware of itself as a temporary community. This is the final 'space' that I'd hoped to produce for participants: a space produced by through sharing this experience, a moment of self-realization, as politicized community. 

This interest in the 'nesting' of spaces came from a research project with Dr. Vaughan Bell (who I had known previously through the new media lab, Backspace, in London).  The following –  from a gallery information sheet produced in 2012 – describes the ambitions of this research:

"This work is one of the outcomes from research and development undertaken by the artist during 2005 and 2006, in collaboration with psychologist Vaughan Bell and funded by the Wellcome Trust’s SCIART Scheme. They together investigated walking and memory and their impact on place. One concern of their work was how our brains understand space and the idea of the mental ‘nesting’ of larger, external spaces within smaller, interior ones. Under the very rare condition of Reduplicative Paramnesia, people recovering from extreme brain-injury have the delusion that their current location, such as a hospital, is contained within their bedroom at home, for example. It shouldn’t be possible, under abstract, logical definitions of ‘space’, to have two places existing at more than one location at a time. For this work, the artist invites you to walk around this gallery, but speak out loud to the gallery attendant or the others viewing the exhibition with you, your recollection of a walk you have taken through another familiar gallery space, and then to listen and walk, while others do the same."