2001–04 Bykermorning: the view from a deserted utopia—a home movie

Bykermorning: the view from a deserted utopia—a home movie is an episodic video of images recorded from similar viewpoints, at different times of the year, from within a flat in Byker. The outside and inside of this place is revealed by the camera in real time as changing lighting conditions and a shift through seasons disclose a marking of time. This work recalls neglected concepts of an earlier modernism that envisioned technologies of mass production as having the potential to produce social utopias. That these possibilities remain latent in our culture is a belief at the heart of this work.”

Hatton Gallery press release justfornow, Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, England