The Bunker Project 2001

A site-specific installation for a decommissioned government nuclear bunker in Essex, UK. Created in parallel with a live work for the location by choreographer Suzanne Thomas (Seven Sisters Group).

The bunker, hidden away from the outside world, was located 50 feet below a large woodland area in Essex, which at the time of the project was covered with a large carpet of bluebell flowers:

“The reactor shone with a wonderful bright blue glow. The blue was quite like the colour of bluebells, pure, deep like the deepest blue in a perfectly clear sky.”

- Albert Reynolds, nuclear physicist. 1996

Credits

Installation artist: Nic Sandiland

Commissioned by: Essex Dance Agency, funded through Arts Council Year of the Artist.

Presentations

Kelvedon Hatch Nuclear Bunker, Essex.