Lest We See Where We Are

Hampton and Etchells’ celebrated creation for 100 years of the Vooruit building is back, over a decade later. Voice, sound and photography woven across two parts: inside, outside / past, future.

To begin with you're indoors, alone in Vooruit’s theatre auditorium, guided by headphones on a journey through photography and into the eyes of those looking back at us from past times, aware or unaware of what was coming to them. And us, now, today. What would those in the future see in images of us looking back at them?

Outside, you're standing in the street holding in your arms a portable stereo. Binaural audio and bass vibrations against your body create a perfect illusion of a voice emerging from it, amplified, echoing around you. A fantasy of being responsible for this voice which is thinking out loud, in public. A ‘prosthetic voice’, working through ideas and fears to do with the future, in real time.