TENDAYI VINE - MIRROR CITIES: Into THE EARTH

THUR 20 MARCH - THUR 3 APRIL (Launch EVENT 20 MARCH, 6pm)

Mirror Cities: Into the Earth is an outdoor visual artwork by Tendayi Vine that builds on the artist’s most recent exhibition at Watermans exploring the significance of the Gutta Percha tree in the development of global communications – the tree’s sap was used to make the casings that wrapped the cables laid across the Atlantic in the 19th Century.

Tendayi Vine’s interactive installation builds on research into the gutta percha tree as a feature of the internet's physical landscape. Human habitats are simultaneously ancient and new and the meaning we make from them is constantly reshaped by human technological dependencies. Into the Earth explores the infrastructures of digital and virtual spaces by framing them as imagined environments - images of landscape shaped by myth, story and superstition.

This installation is part of the EU funded Artcast4D project which enables artists to explore the use of interactive technologies in their work and utilises AAASeed software to drive the interactive elements

Mirror Cities: Into the Earth is a project networked with Hounslow’s twin town Issy-les-Moulineaux in France where the artist Jaime Jimenez’s project explores the principle of audio-visual performance: mapping the results, by mixing painting, video and live music with drawing. Visual relays between the two locations will be shared, with Tendayi Vine’s work in Hounslow also being seen in France and vice versa.