20th October
The exhibition was due to take place from 13:00 to 15:00 inside the prison. We all had to exhibit on the first floor, were not allowed to fix anything to the walls or ceilings and there were no electricity points.
I chose the end of the first long corridor after the entrance to the prison for my projection which was in semi-darkness. There were two big heating pipes going across just underneath the ceiling so I used string to tie the two silk sheets to these so that they hung down, one in front of the other. I then set the projector up on a chair behind to get it to the right height to project through the two sheets.
A large number of the students and tutors came from the school to look at the exhibition. I had to explain my work to each of the groups of people through an interpreter. One of the students said that he found the work ‘very eerie’ and the headmaster explained that where I had chosen to exhibit had been the old entrance to the prison where all the prisoners were brought in.
A tutor commented that he could see the projector behind the silk sheets and this had distracted from the projection itself. Our tutor Laura Leahy, said it was interesting how the fate of the prison was unresolved, as in no one can decide what to do with the building, nothing is clear, just like my projection piece, so she said that she thought it worked really well in the space.
