Miranda Whall

Passage was made between 2009 and 2012. It is a collection of distillations; fragments of images and sounds that I collected as I travelled as an itinerant artist from artists residency to residency in Wales, France, Spain, Turkey, Mexico, Thailand and Germany. It was designed as a 4 screen (double sided plexiglass) video and surround sound installation for the ICIA (Institute for Contemporary Interdisciplinary Art, Bath 2015.

My presence was always temporary and passing. Each time I arrived in a place I started a new story; a quest in search of something elusive, transient or difficult to define, a ‘thing’ both common and rare. My travellers’ observations were inevitably predictable at first but my stories unfolded, twisted and turned leading me to unexpected conversations, coincidences and collaborations. I was a passenger carried along simply by the pleasure of not knowing, the pleasure of not being at home; free to wander and wonder, to surrender to time and warm winds and to fall in love with songs, voices, words, faces, dances and places… now this collection of distilled and fragmented images and sounds reveal and conceal my unique ‘passage’.