This island, and its buildings, is our private paradise

A screenplay, co-authored with novelist Yannick Hill, centres around a lone islander and takes three forms: an exhibition, an excerpt from a shooting script and a performance*. One narrative configured three times with different emphases, serves to excavate gaps and slippages between forms. Selected and edited found footage offers possible ways to navigate these gaps, though these too feel at best provisional.

A YouTube-culled tourist film, shot from within a revolving restaurant, loops endlessly across a wall which has been curved, seemingly in sympathy with the plate glass which separates the diners from the nocturnal city outside. Just as the camera’s autofocus constantly and indecisively flicks between the windowsill pot plants and the lights of distant buildings, so too the elements that make up this show, propose unstable connections with one another. Connections which feel analogous with the desire to understand an alien culture or place, as we in turn, test our role as protagonist and island dweller.