Don't let it slip, 1999

Book pages, muslin, light boxes
Dimensions variable

This series of installations explored the links between language, knowledge, culture and identity. It combined two basic elements; thousands of books that had been ripped up and rebound with muslin strips, and digital images of my hands, lips, tongue and ears, the body's tools for gesture and communication.

Don't let it slip, installation details, 1999

Book pagesp, muslinp, light boxesp, tablep, inkp, copy of biography of George Elliot

Don't let it slip, installation details, 1999

Book pages, muslin, constructed walls, Quicktime movie
The video at the end of this corridor showed the pages of a book in a state of gradual transformation.