Collaborator's 2007: V & A Exhibit

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The exhibition brought together theatre designs from very large scale productions in London's West End to relatively small budget puppet shows performed in Liverpool:)

Front Window is a puppet show and we decided to create an exhibit using an installation inside a puppet booth - in the style of Punch & Judy. The show is about voyeurism and the interpretation we, as the viewer, put onto briefly glimpsed scenes.

Our booth has a false back, and rooms are created behind a variety of windows. There is a looped 5 minute 'trailer' of the show running continuously on a portable DVD player built into the false back.

 
 

The main part of the exhibit is a model of the show's finale - 20-plus windows each inside an individually designed and lit box.

The scale of the model meant the boxes containing the windows were between 1 and 2 cm high... ordinary bulbs (e.g. from torches/flashlights) and LEDs were far too bright and over-exposed the subjects: we used fibre optics to illuminate the windows.