Cerith Wyn Evans : Permit yourself...
Great North Run Culture and Locus+ commissioned Cerith Wyn Evans to create Permit yourself..., a
major piece of temporary public art in Sunderland that explores the
true spirit of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Cultural
Olympiad.
Permit yourself… is a large-scale kinetic sculpture formed from double-sided mirrors
assembled as a huge mobile, with the following text intricately cut out
of the panels:
Permit yourself to drift from what you are reading at this very
moment into another situation, another way of acting within the
historical and psychic geographies in which the event of your own
reading is here and now taking place; here, and now taking the place of
other ways of making passionate and energetic connections between us.
Imagine a situation that, in all likelihood, you’ve never been in.
Hanging in a large warehouse in the heart of one of Sunderland’s industrial quarters, by the river Wear, Permit yourself… is continually moving. With each panel revolving slowly, no visitor
will experience the same sequence of changing light and text.
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