Hour

Hour is a collaboration between the visual artist Tim Wainwright and composer Chris Letcher.

It started out as a one-hour film that explored the process of contemplation using abstract imagery and a composed surround-sound soundtrack and premiered at this years City of London Festival. Contemplation in this instance is defined as a way of knowing that complements the rational, the irrational and the sensory. It is a knowing through silence, a looking inward, a witnessing of the contents of our consciousness, and so forth, without any essential imposition of a religious doctrine.

For the installation at The Nunnery, the film will show for 12 hours and develop ideas that have emerged from the original piece. It will consider the relationship between the body and the mind, between the conscious and unconscious, and ultimately between the visual and the sonic. The image track and the sound track will exist as separate hour-long loops, of slightly different lengths. Consequently, every sequence of images over the 12-hour period will combine with a new sequence of sound. Like the relationship between the mind and the body, the sonic will at times appear to be working in sympathy with the visual, while at other times, this relationship will seem to be conflicted.