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A Play in Time

This commissioned, double-screen video work and publication critically explores practices of space in the recreational context of a public urban park. The work addresses the relationship between technologies of vision, sites of public social activity, and the ethics of the relationship between observer and observed. It contributes to research into practices of the everyday in the public domain through video and sound recording, stressing the incidental and the intermingling of public and private experience. The twin screen structure and the rhythmic pace of the editing draws attention to the subjective experience of passing time and to the play between perception, memory and reverie.

The work was first exhibited at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery 2008 as a solo show. It was subsequently presented at Tate Britain’s Annual Urban Encounters symposium 2010 and as part of Land 2 Research group's 10th anniversary exhibition and symposium 2012. Further exhibitions and related symposia include ‘Close To Home: Artists Reconsider The Local’ East Street Arts Leeds 2012; ‘Les Photaumnales’ 2011 Beauvais France; ‘Artsway Open’, Artsway UK 2009; ‘Kythera Photographic Encounters’ Greece 2009. The work’s contribution, in terms of a public-facing impact agenda, can also be evidenced by a special screening for the general public in the place in which it was made, St Ann’s Well Gardens, Hove 2008.

The work is accompanied by a book ‘A Play in Time by Trangmar’ (Photoworks 2008), including critical essays by Dr Claire MacDonald; Dr David Alan Mellor; and David Chandler, plus an interview with Trangmar.