FIXED-TERM

Fixed-Term is an immersive video art tracing the tenuous nature of holding onto a transient resonance within a space that was never meant to be permanent.

 

For many Londoners navigating the relentless flux of this city, our ties to people are as fragile as our ties to the postcodes we inhabit. This project was born from this specific urban precarity, created as a ritual of departure before moving out of Stoke Newington. It utilises point cloud to document a room that hosts the traces of loneliness and fleeting intimacy, much like the lease itself, is temporary and can never truly be re-entered once it reaches its inevitable expiration.

 

The work unfolds through a dual-narrative architecture where a visceral fear from the past finds resonance with the quiet resignation of the present. It reflects the provisionality of modern belonging; within this state of transience, the very anxiety of checking if something still holds becomes, in itself, the catalyst for its collapse. This fragility is physically manifested through a sonic layer, where a recurring melodic motif evolves to suture these distant narrative planes together.

 

Through this ritual of departure, the work captures the final density of a space before it dissolves. A point cloud scan holds the data of this room, yet it remains just a collection of points vulnerable to scatter. In the city's constant flux, we are only ever temporary tenants of each other’s histories. Once the lease reaches its expiration, the room reverts to a blank coordinate, indifferent to the intimacy it once held. The traces of who we were within those walls are rendered invisible.