Showing posts with label Hull. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hull. Show all posts

Monday, 23 June 2008

Reverse Pedestrianism World Record Attempt 1996



Armed with an adapted bicycle helmet and video camera, a bag full of sandswiches and water, a bunch of Yorkshire White Roses (handed to pedestrain walkers) - I took a four daytime walk across the then biggest single spanned suspension bridge in the world...as an active and some what poetic modern day clown celebration of a so called regional change (reinstatement) in name and policy (Humberside County Council to East Yorkshire). I got up as a local prankster to signal these new changes in a way that I felt fit to do so!!!!!


Documentation with sound can be found at:
http://www.harrypalmer.co.uk/

Social Worker / Art Worker - Early Investigations


Back in 1995, I took to the streets in Kingston Upon Hull in Humberside, where I was living throughout the 1990s. This street work was a start at gathering public opinion of sorts. I leave you with the images! I turned this work into a video performance, performing transcripts in bars c/o VisionCollision in Manchester and then onto Brighton.