Sean Loughrey
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Site Specific Projection #1
Queens Hotel, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. May 1989.
The Queens Hotel was to be the first in a successive series of site specific projections. This hotel was built around the turn of the century in a classic tudur style. When this site was chosen the building was closed due to fire damage caused by children, drunks and the more serious arsonist waiting for demolition.
The building stood dominant in its surroundings, perched on a hill next to the railway station. It might remind one of the house on the hill from Hitchcock's renowned film 'Psycho'.
The building did not make heritage listing so was to be demolished.
A series of images were projected on to the facade of the building, these images included; a detail from what was thought to be a Rembrandt painting (above), a plastic wrapper and the artist as a young boy (below).
The idea was to bring two found objects together, coexisting in a temporal space. In a sense it was to offer the site one last breadth while acknowleging the temporal nature of existance as a whole.
The nature of these projections function more like events rather then exhibits. The work was viewed by drunks and suspicious passer-byes as well as the local police who kept the area well under surveilance.
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