Sliding Walls

Sliding Walls focuses on an element of a military set and analyses it through a repeating and looping set of small-scale changes. The set under analysis is a series of identical one-room houses, each constructed from concrete breeze blocks. Each is only 70% built and the bricks are elaborately scattered/placed around the buildings. In the video, mapping the structures across themselves, each sliding wall misses being the correct size to perfectly fit over the previous layer. Each wall threatens to imprison the next, yet each version creates a new awareness of the production of the space as control. The video is accompanied by archival sound, which also provides a framing of land and space through the voices of Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and NASA’s mission control, who discuss how best to frame and document the moon whilst standing on the moon. The work has also been shown as one large scale vinyl image with video monitors set within the image.