‘The Miserable and Calamitous Spectacle’ quotes Pepys commentary on The Great Fire of London in 1666. The journey up the spiral staircase connecting the 17th and 21st centuries, the retribution of fire and water rising over a colonial city built on toil, seafaring, trade and combustion.
The Great Fire devastated the city but it also wiped out the plague that had become endemic in London over the centuries, and when conditions like weather and population levels of humans, rats and fleas reached critical mass, plague would erupt as epidemic. Again linking different epochs ‘Bubonic Video’ compares biological meltdown with the potential of electronic condensation and it’s cultural impact.
London’s territorial complexity is formed of a multitude of juxtapositions, these can be internalised within individuals and expressed in communities as conflicts and collaborations. Shot in the Back is an East End Western, pitching Willy and Dick together yet apart in a stressed out posse as art and business collide, merge, split and spin.