Photo credit : Veronica Vickery 2020
In Free Fall
In Free Fall was a collaborative installation with sound shown as part of ‘Centre of Gravity’ at The Soapworks, Bristol in 2020
Artists: David Alesworth, Éilis Kirby, Carol Laidler, Huma Mulji, Sarah Rhys
“Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground…. Whole societies around you may be falling just as you are. And it may actually feel like perfect stasis—as if history and time have ended and you can’t even remember that time ever moved forward.”
In Free Fall is a footprint of an empty plinth, constructed and suspended; an uncertain perspective, an altered horizon, an attempt to find new ground. In reference to Robert Morris’ Box …, it is accompanied quietly by the sound of its unmaking.
The upturned/suspended plinth base was made just after The Black Lives Matter protest in which Colston’s statue was toppled and during Covid 19. A time of turmoil, suspended time and fast changing landscapes. We borrowed the title from Hiyto Steyerl’s essay ‘In Free Fall’.