tramway 2
(Visitor, interviewed 17 February 2008)
(Visitor, interviewed 17 February 2008)
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Photographs of street name signs, taken on the three filmed routes, stretched along the gallery wall opposite to the projections. Breaks in the lines of photographs signalled breaks in the journeys - where roads no longer existed, had been pedestrianised or become part of the city’s one-way traffic system. Below the photographs ran an unbroken line of names of the streets as they existed in the late nineteenth century. | ||
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‘Also,
the photographs and signage on the wall. I really liked that. At first I
looked at it and thought “hmmmm…” Then just slowly following it along
and also just seeing the history contained within those images and the development
and the changing city within those images – cause it’s just this little
signage but it’s on a particular type of wall and it’s got a particular
feel to it – it’s just that [there‘s] a real sense of pacing throughout
the city and pacing of change […] a sense of engagement with the piece
but also engagement with the city.’ (Visitor, interviewed 17 February 2008) |
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‘It
makes you think about a different way of looking at places that you know
[…] I like [the photographs of] all the different street names. Some of
them are new and some of them are old and the buildings that they’re stuck
on are all very different […] Some of them look like they’ve been there
for ever and are falling off – and some of them are brand new.’ (Visitor, interviewed 17 February 2008) |
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