WIDESCREEN WHISKERS - Choose a rabbit..
Widescreen Whiskers was created for
>> ELSEWHERE FACTORY's
"A Night Inspired by David Lynch", a multi-disciplinary surreal art event -
one of a series featuring visual art, theatre performance, and live bands.
So as to create easily transportable/storable art, Squid decided to print
out a gold frame for each rabbit picture, instead of using a "real" frame.
All the photographs in this project were taken in Squid's local area of
Bethnal Green. In contrast to Lynch's "Rabbits" which takes place on
a set that look like the interior of somebody's house, the various places
in "Widescreen Whiskers" were chosen because they exuded a sense
of mystery and cult charm, despite being familiar, everyday locations.
Squid and Elsewhere Factory loved the idea of rabbits as symbolic entities
in other surreal works such as Jan Svankmajer's film "Alice" (1988), and
and Richard Kelly's "Donnie Darko" (2001), and also found the use of
masks for the audience highly compelling in productions by the amazing
Punchdrunk Theatre - e.g: "Faust" and "Masque of the Red Death.
So, a few days before the event, we made around 100 cardboard rabbit
masks (neon pink, yellow, green, as well as black, silver, gold, yellow
and red) for our guests.. Thus, we transformed the Proud Gallery into a
dark field of band-gazing, beer/juice-swilling, multicoloured rabbits.
