A Walk Through Maggie’s

A Walk Through Maggie’s was performed and documented on the construction site of the new Maggie’s Centre in Sutton, designed by Ab Rogers Design.
The film augmented time-lapse technique in my performative practice to explore architectural spaces and human situations. The method was to move ultra-slowly through the site adjusting the pace of my movements to the expected speed of the film played afterwards. I collaborated with film maker and photographer Brian McClave, who runs Site-Eye, a company that makes time lapse films for construction sites and my photographer and editor photographer Laurence Moss. While performing, I became a familiar prop, a friendly alien over the two days of filming. In a scene I passed on a shovel to a worker, and my slow time met the worker’s fast time in a glimpse, sparking a touchpoint that broke the worker’s time bubbles and offered a coherent perspective of their divided tasks.
I n the subsequent cinema screening at ArchLight Cinema the building workers saw themselves doing their regular work in a twisted reality, suggesting a new collective awareness of a connected process.

The project was in collaboration with Site-Eye, Sir Robert McAlpine and Ab Rogers Design.
Photos by Laurence J Moss

Sutton, 2019