Linger

About the work

Linger explores the sense of loss attached to lives that might have unfolded differently. It considers each action and response as a choice that realises one possibility while leaving others behind. The installation returns to moving images and sounds recorded for earlier works but omitted from their completed forms. These unused fragments become material through which another possible present can be encountered.

A pendulum-like light passes across light sensors, triggering cassette playback and directly activating moving images on the tablets. Eight screens and four speakers distribute these events across the installation. The cassette recordings contain sounds captured alongside footage gathered over six years. Material that had remained outside the final edits reappears in changing relationships with images and with the light moving through the space.

The physical movement of the apparatus becomes part of the work’s timing. Viewers follow the light, turn towards an activated screen, or wait for an image to return. Their attention connects fragments appearing at different positions and moments. Through these shifting encounters, Linger gives unrealised possibilities a temporary material presence, bringing the distance between a past choice and a present experience into bodily perception. Its light-triggered system also connects it with Phantom V5, where a handheld torch brings the activation of recorded fragments into a live performance.