Cecil Sharp house, london, 2009

Collaboration with Sarah Foque

Gallery Installation

Gallery Installation (detail)

Gallery Installation (detail)

Gallery Installation (detail)

Gallery Installation (detail)

Gallery Installation (detail)

Through vividly coloured materials, both artists responded to the Cecil Sharp House building, the home of the EFDSS, as the starting point for work in an attempt to directly interact with its community and interior. Responding to a site's history and the movement of people through it, Sarah Foqué creates installations with straight bands of colour. Drawing on histories of philosophy and anthropology, Foqué focuses on the mapping and exploration of space and boundaries. Typically using coloured tape as a material to visualise her understanding of the space she is working in. With this installation Foqué has created a fluid portrait of space and its activities, alluding to traditional dance figures. James Johnson-Perkins utilises references to popular culture of the 1980s to create works of play and nostalgia. His installation, spanning all four storeys of the building stairwell, is an attempt to build the tallest tower ever made from Mega-Bloks and also symbolises a May Pole.