The video is part of a series of works in which container ships and shipping containers themselves feature (both as moving image works and sculpture). However instead of being presented directly these massive structures are dematerialized or fragmented to become more insubstantial, though still pervasive, elements. In this way their visual presence purposely belies the actual scale of our dependence upon these vehicles of global trade, and equally the enormous scale of their real presence in the ongoing procedures of capitalism. Like a kind of blind spot, they are there but not there, their cumulative effects strategically forgotten in favour of the comfort of our individual lives.

The video exists as part of a suite of videos (all shot in Istanbul) titled The Other Side of Shouting Men and has been shown along with an ongoing work The Face of Another which explores these themes in relation to Western culture’s reliance on the ‘myth’ of the individual. This is the first time the video will be seen as a stand-alone work in a public site.