Tales of Time and Space: Part-home, part-library and a fully functioning escape vehicle.
For the 2008 Folkestone Triennial artists Heather and Ivan Morsion developed the work Tales of Time and Space, transforming a 1954 Green Goddess fire engine into a self-sufficient house truck and library. The library was comprised entirely of apocalypse-themed fiction with the interior’s soft furnis...
| Publicado en: | Performance Research Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 49 - 51 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2017
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