WALLED UNWALLED
INSTALLATION DESIGN AT THE TATE MODERN TANKS | LONDON , UK
”Walled Unwalled” film by Lawrence Abu Hamdan
OCTOBER 2018
The 8x2.5m construction captures, amplifies, and examines a barrier suspended in a moment of fragmentation.
Animated by the projected film, it serves to radiate into the centre of the South Tank an illusory, deconstructed reading of the image rendered on its front.
The screen is both input and output, imbued with an image which it displays, while simultaneously broadcasting interference and noise in the form of reflections, iridescence and complex layering of ambient light and image both crisp and blurred. The real-time synergy between the film and installation brings to question the agency of barriers, screens, and walls in filtering and delineating the vague, contested, and layered territory between public and private.
AFTER SFX
In addition to screening the 20-minute film Walled Unwalled, the installation serves as the backdrop for Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s performance piece – AfterSFX – exploring various aspects of sonic memory. After SFX is a performance of the sounds from Abu Hamdan’s self-constructed sound effects library and their accompanying narratives. It uses inventive methods to uncover the unexpected ways in which we encode sonic events in our minds.
After SFX, curated by Andrea Lissoni and Carly Whitefield (Tate Film).