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  Pearl
  1998
 

Proposal for
The Wapping Project,
Wapping Pumping Station, London.

 

Film projection, and associated objects.

Sound: Short story (adapted from a fable by Suniti Namjoshi). A female narrator tells of the ingenious methods used by an oyster attempting to evade pearl divers.
Projected: Close up on a woman's face. She coughs intermittently. The cough becomes increasingly severe. She coughs up a pearl.

The floor of the pumping station is strewn with 'pearls'.

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