These stills are from Finnish artist Antti Laitinen's 'Voyage', a performance piece from 2008 in which he rowed a home-made island up the River Thames. In this piece, as well as other performances and video works, Laitinen raises questions of nation, identity and belonging, creating a one man state that he inhabits, and in this case rows through the city of London. I wrote about another of his works earlier this year after seeing it in a group show in Nettie Horn Gallery, and just happened to stumble across these images again the other day whilst considering my current work, to which this piece feels quite relevant.
Ironically he was stopped by the police as he reached the Houses of Parliament, which although put an end to the performance in some way allowed for further discussion of the issues he was raising in the first place...
In relation, I visited Peckham today to take more photos for my palm tree project that I'm currently working on, you can see a few pics here.
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