‘Chute

‘Chute (2004), was a live performance and video installation commissioned by Allenheads Contemporary Arts as part of their ScartLab residencies 2003-4.

In the skies above Allenheads Contemporary Arts a skydiver, connected to the gallery via live video link, became the vehicle for a cinematic ‘travelling shot’ which traversed the space between the abstracted aerial view of landscape to the lived space of the gallery below. Within the gallery, this live footage, alongside that taken from a small light aircraft, showed aerial views of the Tyne Valley. These images were intercut with those of a parachutist demonstrating the bodily positions necessary for safe skydiving.

Exhibition and Event:

2004
Allenheads Contemporary Art, Northumberland.
ACA Allenheads Contemporary Art

Publication:

Setting the Fell on Fire , Allenheads Contemporary Arts, (2009).

Supported by Arts Council England, Northern Rock Foundation, Art Editions North.