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Tomorrow I start my 5 day residency at The Queen of Hungary Project Space - www.queenofhungary.co.uk .
Excitingly I 'd ordered some posters with that rough fly poster quality and they arrived in double quick time on Friday. I've blown-up one of my stamp collages, "Irandar", to A0 size, so the radar image is more obvious. I much prefer them original size, original collage, with the cuts and blemishes in glorious 3D visibility, but the flattening in the print is interesting and the image remains bold with lovely graphic qualities 100 times bigger and 100 times more pronounced. I've also done a negative version which has a harsh grey green, almost with a fluorescent attitude. I like that as it reminds me of Cold War posters and reference to alien invasions and UFOs.
Over the next 5 days I willbe able to consider in detail where to put the two versions of "Irandar". I like the idea of pasting them onto some corrugated iron (part of a demolished Nissen Hut) that is stacked behind the Project Space, but it is only borrowed and would be a pain to try and get off afterwards (as I remember from the huge fly posters we pasted up on King's Street, Norwich next to Dragon Hall).
Digital video with sound taken at the Radar Museum, Norfolk during the collaborative project with Nicola Naismith, 'Touring Territories - East Anglian U.F.O' as part of Satellite, our artist group. Some of the shots were taken in the former cold war operations room, which would have been the right time for Operation Charlie in 1947. There are still lots of images and video shots that we have not had time to properly look through. The museum was chock-full of interesting lights and twirly, rotating lumps of machinary. We do however, now have a free ticket for a return visit.
http://player.vimeo.com/video/33348857
Whilst investigating Operation Charlie's 1947 sightings of unexplained lights or Ghost Planes across East Anglia, but tracked at different points by the radar at RAF Neatshead, I became somewhat transfixed by the flashing, pulsating lights and whirring, turning machines in the Radar Museum. Some good examples of aerial surveillance cameras as well as fascinating radar equipment. I was reminded of Stephanie Douet's sculpture, entitled 'Radar' of course, commissioned for the Air Field show I curated in Norfolk. I 'm eager to return to the museum for an in-depth visit.
Photo credits: Top - Type 84 Radar at RAF Neatishead. Once used to detect Soviet aircraft during the Cold War. 2011 Chris Morshead, RAF Air Defence Radar Museum.
Bottom - A Type 7 MK Radar at Bishops Court, Northern Ireland in 1972. Spanning 1942-1989, the Type 7 was the longest-serving Air Defence Radar. RAF Defence Radar Museum.
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