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THE WALL PROJECT
 
The Wall Project (formerly London Wall) is a physical manifestation of the invisible city all around us; a poetic snapshot of social networking traffic from within a fixed radius around any gallery or site where the work is show. Since its first showing at the Museum of London in 2010, Walls have been made/performed in numerous places that include Tallin, Portland (Oregon) and Inverness.


When a wall is performed, the artists take publicly available status updates from popular websites like twitter and facebook then represent them chronologically as a vast array of typeset posters revealing the idle mutterings of ourselves to ourselves as a form of concrete poetry.

London Wall is a clunky cottage industry, where the artists manually manufacture a collision of public electronic space with the public physical space of the museum.

Click here to hear the artists interviewed by Robert Elms on BBC London radio back in 2010 when the work first launched.