Walking Wall: Stefhan Caddick & Simon Whitehead
About the work
Installation, Qube
Walk across Oswestry from Qube to Offa’s Dyke, Sat 4th November, 2pm, duration 2 hours.
About the work
Responding to the relative invisibility of the border between Wales and England, both on the ground and in contemporary mapping, Stefhan Caddick and Simon Whitehead have created a ‘mobile barrier’ in order to explore the ways in which borders are physically manifest.
Walking Wall establishes a situation in which the viewer is physically confronted by a barrier, an encounter that transforms the benign nature of the western border experience into something more challenging. This barrier is a contingent one; a generic anti climb security fence which has been tampered with and augmented. The artists have added wheels, microphones and harp strings, making the structure audible, temporal, temporary.
On Saturday 4th November Caddick and Whitehead, accompanied by members of the public, pushed the wall through parts of Oswestry to Offa’s Dyke. The piece was transformed from a sculptural form, which dissected the gallery space at Qube, into a movable, sensitive interface that demarcated pathways through town and country, a temporarily visible wall.
