Light on the Feet (Footfalls for Samuel Beckett)
Strange Cargo, Cheriton, Nr Folkestone
February to March 2016
Commissioned by King’s College, Cambridge in 2015, this new sound and projection work was shown again in Strange Cargo’s gallery, to coincide with the third biennial Cheriton Light Festival, organised by Strange Cargo throughout the weekend of 27 & 28 February 2016, with the theme of hidden places and open spaces.
‘This work is about stepping, walking, touch and being in physical contact with the earth. It is inspired by the play Footfalls by Samuel Beckett, during which the performer walks nine paces, backwards and forwards, repeatedly, across the stage.
It was only when I talked about this idea at Strange Cargo that I discovered that not only did Samuel Beckett visit Folkestone – he was married there, to Suzanne, in Folkestone Registry Office in 1961.’
DW, January 2016
Light on the Feet (Footfalls for Samuel Beckett)
2015
Projected photographic images and sound
Duration: continuous
The sound is a sequence of ambient rainforest recordings made by David Ward on the Orinoco River in 1995.
