Liverpool-to-Liverpool (video)

2 channel video, 6 min 2009

A two-channel video-work made during a 14 day journey by container-ship across the North Atlantic. Traveling from the ‘old’ world to the ‘new’, the absurd quest traces paths of trade and exodus from Liverpool, England to Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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The project was recently presented as a two-screen video installation in the exhibition : RECIF 2, une traversée, at the Musee de Beaux Arts (Calais) in 2015.

The full Liverpool-to-Liverpool project is a body of work generated by an epic journey by rail, road and ocean shipping-lanes – undertaken to create a a new public-artwork for the city of Liverpool, England.

 

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