WEEKS & WHITFORD 'KICKING THE CAN'
Rebecca Weeks & Ian Whitford

Rubbish collected from the area over days formed the basis of the dystopian installation that this apocalyptic scene played out over. Ian moved around listening in the wreckage for signs of life, putting on found clothes, and wearing post cards full of memories of places and people, as they were before the end times. At points fragments of bodies were visible poking out of the piled cardboard boxes and plastic bound breathing was laboured. An end times Adam and Eve sat together stirring rotten apples in a pot. The clock was broken and is unfixable. Precious soil was held over Rebecca’s face, belly and breasts, and her lap was sewn with dead flowers and little  bulbs that fell away. The morse code for SOS was written invisibly on the wall and wiped away with tears. Veiled actions of grief, mourning and animalistic nurture unfolded by the water. The last child was laid to rest in the water of the canal.

Photography: Pierce Starre & Samm Shackleton