The Policing of Pleasure/ Camden Arts Centre, London, 1995.

In this Installation for the Camden Arts Centre, the windows of the space were covered with perforated boards, to act as a membrane/screen to the outside world. As you came into the space an electronic counter recorded your arrival and marked this as an electronic number (this idea was taken further in A Long, Thin Thread) at Heathrow Airport. Large cast plaster hemispheres, urinals/ swollen bellies had fluorescent tubes piercing the base. Rubble bags were filled with rock salt in the middle of the room and two large black and white photographs showing broken concrete in an industrial cityscape also inhabited the space. A gun-mic outside the gallery picked up the sounds of the congested motorway, replaying this live feed within the installation through speakers mounted on the ceiling. The loud street noise plays sequentially through one of twelve speakers at a time, bouncing the cyclical sounds of the city around the gallery space in a random chaotic fashion.

Director of Camden Arts Centre and curated by Jenni Lomax

Catalog Essay by Mark Leahy.