Rachel Cockburn
Wrapped
March 2005
A site specific intervention exploring the possibilities of dialogue with a stranger. Who are we? Where do we come from, where are the traces of our roots? How do we embrace our individual identity and heritage in a city that erases differences and produces a space
.. In which reproducibility, repetition and reproduction of social relationships gives precedence over works, natural reproduction, over nature itself and over natural time. ( Henri Levebvre )
One afternoon, a stranger from a colliery village in the North-east of England, drags her own body weight in coal though the shopping plaza in Wood Green, tracing memories of home on the way. Receiving stares, laughs and compassion; slowly a dialogue is evoked with fellow strangers; compassion for an individual struggling with the self through the transient city.
