Sleepwalker
The central focus of ‘Sleepwalker’ is a single character, a young man who is seen in certain mundane urban spaces, apparently adrift, wandering aimlessly and alone. However this aimlessness quickly gives way to a realisation that there is an undercurrent of another kind of psychological space being experienced. He begins to investigate his surroundings, touching things, testing their surfaces as if not being certain of their material stability, as if they contain some element of threat directed at him, as he does so he triggers another kind of reality which might be seen as flashbacks, recollections of previous experiences or some form of neurosis. These threatening images filmed through a blue filter suggest a liminal space of paranoia, of anxiety, or perhaps of fantasy; there is a gradual but insistent fracturing and blurring of the notion of reality and the space of psychosis as if the rules of the game that determine our understanding of the way things are, are being broken.
Performance: Kyle Turlunch
Funded by: Arts Council England
Exhibition History:
2009 - Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2009 - Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid
2009 - Passage_09, Universal Cube, Halle 14, Spinnerei, Leipzig
2008 - "passage_west_2008", KunstDoc, South Korea
2008 - The Barbican Centre, London
2008 - Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Nouveau Latina, Paris
