| A crowd of people stood and stared
A fictional crowd is assembled in A crowd of people stood and stared, a fast-moving digital ‘remix’ of an installation created at the Bluecoat in 1997 entitled It was thirty years ago today, which updated the Beatles’ iconic Sgt. Pepper’s record sleeve with heroes nominated by invited artists. These cut-out figures have been in store since then and in this installation directed by Alan Dunn in collaboration with Derek Horton, Michael Jenkins and Sam Meech the tableau is re-presented. The four central figures are replaced with plinths on which monitors show new films relating to contemporary visionaries and crowds. Sam Meech’s video The thing around the thing presents a series of Liverpool crowds with the subject of their attention removed; Michael Jenkins’ Sleeping on the rope takes an oblique look at overcrowding, re-enacting the tradition of slinging an old rope across a doss house when all other beds for the night are full; Derek Horton’s video-text work The surging stream explores the role of ‘the crowd’ in literature and philosophy alongside personal reflections from within football and protest crowds; and Alan Dunn’s video slideshow presents a series of visionaries that subconsciously shape our everyday actions, ethics, preconceptions and pleasures, as nominated by a cross-generational group.
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| 1997 | FILMING | ARCHIVING | INSTALLING | LEAFLETING | OPENING |
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| REVIEW 1 |