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Car Boot Sale
1997
15 x 35 mm slides projected onto car windscreen

This piece was made for a collaborative project with six Belfast-based artists. We drove to Kassel in Germany for DocumentaX in two hired Nissan Micras and during the trip, each of the artists created original 35mm slide sequences. Upon arrival in Kassel, the images were projected from the back of one car onto the front windscreen of the other at night in a parking lot behind the main museum hosting Documenta.

For my project, I bought my colleagues dinner at a McDonalds drive-in restaurant along the autobahn and took a sequence of images through the front windscreen as they ate their way through the food in the cramped interior of the car. The scene is one familiar from outside Belfast night clubs and bars, where people will eat take-away food in their cars at the end of a night out. When the images were projected onto the windscreen for the event in Kassel, they took on an startling verisimilitude.