Bypasser 2010

Bypasser was a window-based intervention set in the context of a shopping centre or high street shopping area. The work links the movement of passers-by to the motion of a cinematic tracking shot, rear-projected onto a shop window. 

As they walk in front of the window pedestrians find that the background image, rather than being static, moves matching their speed and direction. 

The piece takes its inspiration from the moving panoramas of the nineteenth century, reinterpreting the form in a contemporary everyday context.

“Most of the panoramas were portraits of vast territories, represented in linear sequence giving the viewer the impression of traveling over the landscape, often by boat or train. In length, moving panoramas typically reached a thousand or more feet and stood eight to twelve feet high. They were generally presented in successive sections framed by a proscenium, which concealed the rollers around which the panorama was wound.”

- K. J. Avery, art historian

Credits

Installation Artist: Nic Sandiland

Commissioned and supported by: Dance Digital, Oxford City Council, Stone Squid Gallery.

Presentations

2010 Stone Squid Gallery, Hastings

2010 Oxford

2010 Chelmsford, Essex