Meech, ST., 2017.

Time Back Way Back

ACE funded Solo exhibition and commission at Signal Films - Exploring the Lost Stations of Barrow through the narrative of Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker. An immersive exhibition featuring 8 new works in concrete, cast iron as well as analogue and digital projection.


Inspired by a masterpiece of science fiction Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, Time Back Way Back reimagines a small corner of South Cumbria as a haunting, post-apocalyptic world of science-fiction fantasy. Visitors were immersed in a futuristic set, and encountered performance, phosphorescent concrete forms, virtual reality and interactive projection mapping.


Using archive film, collected poetry, and scraped twitter feeds, Time Back Way back examines how language and meaning might survive following an apocalypse, distorted through different media, and our as interpreters. The work also refers to Barrow's rail heritage, concrete producion and nuclear industry as possible factors in both preserving the past and condeming the future.

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