paul &
paula
'The Drifting Document'
Swansea Museum
'Drifting' is the practice of the arbitrary navigation of a city in the
pursuit of anarchy, play and poetry. The aim, to reclaim the city for
subjective experience and pure pleasure. Dressed by top fashion designer,
Hugo Boss; Paul & Paula become lost and intoxicated by the city of
Swansea, slowly rubbing away the veneer of civilisation in order to expose
the ‘poetry of the everyday’
The ‘situations’ encountered/manufactured were ‘documented’
by Paul on a hand held 5 X 4 field camera on Polaroid type 55 film and
by Paula on a Nikon digital 'coolpix', with movie clip
The result of this interventionist strategy is a subjective snapshot of
the city over a 24hr period providing a contemporary enigmatic document
of Swansea generated from a series of performative escapades. The ‘drift’
was over a 24 hr period from 6pm, 23rd Aug. 2002 and was carried out by
Teresa Dillon and Paul Jeff
