walkthrough 2.0, 2007
walkthrough is an ongoing series of site-specific, text-based interventions into public architecture that create a convergence of cinema and everyday life. The project takes its title from the pre-production term for rehearsals where performers speak their lines, practice cues and movements, but no shooting occurs. The font and formatting of the adhesive vinyl lettering correspond with the script writing software Final Draft. The playfully conceptual series does not address the cinema through moving images; rather, I produce wall text that is drawn from written dialogue and instructional directions in screenplays.
Initially produced as interventions during a residency at The Banff Centre for the Arts, curator Pablo de Ocampo invited me to produce 10 new segments of the series for the 2007 Images Festival in Toronto. At central locations of the festival, dialogue and direction was placed on doorways, in elevators, and spread across walls, in situations where passersby mimicked the actions and ideas suggested by their words in real life.
*Available as photographic documentation (size) or vinyl text in situ. Also available as personalized vinyl text in situ.
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walkthrough 2.0 (Images Festival, curator Pablo de Ocampo), 2007
Available as 20"h x 35.5"w lightjet prints (or adhesive silver vinyl sized to location)