walkthrough 3.0, 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 Kitty Scott also commissioned 10 new editions of the series for an exhibition to celebrate the 75th anniversary of The Banff Centre for the Arts titled Bureau de Change featuring a project by Kim Adams in the gallery space, photographs by David McMillan and site interventions by Mark Clintberg and myself. The text was positioned in spaces where passersby mimicked the actions and ideas suggested by the words, as cinema and everyday life converge.
*Available as photographic documentation (size) or vinyl text in situ. Also available as personalized vinyl text in situ.
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walkthrough 3.0 (Banff 75th anniversary exhibition, curator Kitty Scott), 2007
Situational integration (at both ends of a hallway joining two buildings, metallic silver vinyl text).
In the scriptwiting software Final Draft, (CONT'D) appears at the bottom of the page if the scene continues onto the next page.