About the project

H.G.
Robert Wilson & Hans Peter Kuhn
The Clink Street Vaults
12 September - 15 October 1995

A door opens off a forgotten London street. The room was full but now it is empty. A newspaper rests on the sidetable. The year is 1895...

You descend into the darkness below - into a subterranean expanse of deserted spaces. The cavernous interiors of The Clink Street Vaults - once the site of one of London's medieval prisons - were transformed in time; indeed different times, from pre-history to the recent past. Above and below, there are intimations of activity, and glimpses into distant places. Darkness and light, object and sound merge to create other worlds both strange, and strangely familiar; visions both ancient and modern.

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Scenes from H.G.

Video: excerpt from H.G.

James Lingwood: The making of H.G.

The mid-1990s was still a good time to search out unused, unwanted spaces in London - not as good as the early 1990s, but a lot better than now. The Clink Street vaults were like a huge underground street, in a part of London very near the City and very near the River Thames, but which every development boom had passed by (until the last one). From the street outside, it was impossible to have any idea of the scale of the spaces behind the facade.

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