Susan Collins
Awash
Waterside, Mackenzie Walk, Canary Wharf, London E14
January 23 to February 2, 1998. 17:00 to 22:00
Commissioned as part of Launch



Awash is a new site specific installation; an intimate work engaging the viewer with a series of sounds and a video projection onto water.
This new commission is a subtle intervention, sited on the waterfront at Mackenzie Walk.



Detail: Contained III Triplicate. Tate Gallery St Ives.
Susan Collins ©1996

They wait for you at every corner, those furious images, those blazing colours. But what if the world was full of sound, and sounds were as intimate and shameless as advertising?
Susan Collins has made her own the intimate and unsettling dimension of hearing. An invisible tongue licks your ear, footsteps echo in empty passageways. A voice insinuates itself into your consciousness, and then, and only then, a splash of light, an image, the colour of a memory. Because they look at the small things, unafraid of sensuousness, sounds and sights, these works are passionate romances with strangers we may never meet: Humans? Machines? Ourselves?
Sean Cubitt 1997

Collins' site specific installations include: interactive sound installation in the Woolwich Foot Tunnel for River Crossings Festival 1993; a large scale commission for the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester; a tour of train stations with her interactive computer controlled video projection and sound work Pedestrian Gestures; and Audiozone for Tramway, Glasgow. Recent gallery and public installations at Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria; NAME Gallery, Chicago and Tate Gallery St Ives. Solo shows in 1997 at Laing Gallery Newcastle and a street/internet/gallery project for Brighton.
Susan Collins is Head of Electronic Media at the Slade School of Fine Art at UCL.


Susan Collins will be giving a talk at Cabot Hall, Canary Wharf, Thursday 29th January 10:00 to 20:30
Tickets: £3.50 (conc. £2.50) including refreshments. Tel: Cabot Hall Box Office 0171 418 2783