Great North Run Culture and Locus+ have 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 within 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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Permit yourself… is a 5-minute walk from the Pallion Metro stop.