The Clockhouse (2012)

This is a time-based work about the ambiguity and illusion of what we see and what we understand, mounted by multi-media artist & performer Deborah Claire Procter. The piece involves installing a hut on Aberystwyth Wooden Harbour Jetty so that small groups of people are able to enter to experience a sound installation and two screens showing the view of the harbour wall as if through windows, but in effect through the lenses of two security cameras placed outside. The real and the mediated, the close and the far are juxtaposed to take the public on a re-visioning of a familiar landscape.

​This project was originally called “Look You Here Now” as a working project title. It was a development of some of the ideas that Procter has discovered while working on various projects of what composer Oscar Edelstein calls “Acoustic Theatre”, where a sense of space and memory are emphasized. 

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Initial Idea: Deborah Claire Procter
General Concept Developed in collaboration: Deborah Claire Procter & Oscar Edelstein
Sound Design: Oscar Edelstein
Text: Deborah Claire Procter & Oscar Edelstein
Actors: Gwion Llŷr, Deborah Claire Procter & Oscar Edelstein
Photos: Keith Morris & Anthony Griffiths

Funding: Arts Council of Wales / Cyngor Tref Aberystwyth Town Council
Sponsorship: Dyfed Alarms, Mount Trading Co, Speedy Rentals, Hencilla  Canworth Insurance & Cwmwythig Farmhouse

Thanks: Dylan Lewis (Mayor of Aberystwyth), Paul Anthony Williams, Helen Gethin, Catherine Young, John Blake (Aberystwyth University Print Room), Norman Williams (Cambrian News), Y Hafod Guesthouse Aberystwyth, Ceredigion County Council, Universidad de Quilmes & students of Centre for Performance Research summer school.