The Society of British Theatre Designers

Vindication, as the title suggests, aimed to justify or ‘sum up’ the previous two parts of a performance tryptych. It began early morning with a mark out of the space I intended to inhabit for the following five hours. A triangle - three parts, three terms, three aspects of the same subject matter. I began by creating a structure from the 32 newspapers read during the Variation performances – accompanied (again) by the Bach. The structure consisted of a series of interconnected triangles and took maybe 2 hours to complete. The spectators both filmed and took still shots of the performance over its duration, having been requested to do so by my signs. I then incorporated all the physical elements of the previous two parts in the construction of the installation which represented the culmination of the 50 years experienced and remembered – a ‘home’ whose boundary fence was constructed of the unravelled year number pages from Vindication, whose front path paving stones were the cut-up CDs from Variation, etc. A vindication of those elements previously utilised. On completion of the installation I sat and ate my lunch at the table, watching an edited version of all 50 years as recorded in Vindication. Then, very quickly, (only one shot recorded this) I took apart the structure and filled several bin bags with all the consumable elements – the paper, CDs, newspapers, boxes etc., and all the numbered masking tape fragments on the floor from Variation. I then took them to the bins just outside the building, and quickly left the space.