Irish artist Yuri Pattison, accompanied by Francesca Hunt and Brian Mitchell from the crisis simulation company CrisisCast, and Hicham Khalidi (Lafayette Anticipations associate curator), presents the different production stages of his new video public solitude (crisis cast). They highlight the artistic and social challenges of the project for which the artist played the role of commissioning client for several procedural, at times banal, behavioural exercises devised by CrisisCast for the video.

The movie takes place in an unfinished and long-since scuppered theatre in central London, that doubles as the airport setting with the role-players performing the characters of travellers, border security agents, and suspects. The work serves as a document of the one-day shoot with the production processes and mechanisms of the simulation laid bare. Furthermore, the movie’s playback is a reflection of the ongoing production process; indeed, Pattison can manage the media player remotely and upload new edits of the video allowing the piece to evolve as the exhibition develops.

This video furthers the artist’s interests in consensus reality, simulation and modelling as well as in hard and soft concepts such as borders and identity. The video sheds light on the often outsourced aesthetic production processes used by governments at a time of major upheavals in foreign policy, exemplified by the hardening of borders and immigration controls both in the United Kingdom and worldwide.

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