FIBUA (Fighting In Built Up Areas)

FIBUA presents a lonely windswept village in simple cartoon graphics.

War simulation based on army training village FIBUA in Salisbury plain, which itself was built as an East German village for cold war training.

The simulation is created as a cartoon computer war game simulation, where the village is repeatedly bombarded by low flying jets. The piece is very noisy.

Installation

2 – 4 video projectors in a controlled space

For 2 projector installation the images should be projected such that they face each other

For 4 projector installation the images should face into a central space, to create as square a central space as possible

There will be loud sound effects of jets passing, loud explosions, and windswept environment noises

The camera views and movements will be serene and gentle until the jets pass, at this point the cameras will pan wildly as if trying to track the planes

There will be aerial views as if looking down from the planes at the village

Equipment:

2 or 4 DVD players

2 or 4 displays, projector

2 or 4 speakers, 1 or 2 amplifiers

Exhibited:

2001, Surface Tension, Cell Project Space, London