Walk into the light

One of Lancaster University's labyrinthine walkways.

Went to see an installation called Jumpers at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts. From the website:

"Jumpers (what must I do to be saved) is a newly commissioned video installation by British artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. It is a beautiful and intense work which documents a live experiment in manipulation and compliance.

The piece takes inspiration from the religious practice of 'jumping' as a form of worship. 'Jumping' was performed over the course of 200 years from the 18th Century by English, Welsh and American Protestant Christians. It was a physical response to a religious state that words could not express - and a phenomenon known to be contagious within a group. The actions and emotions of the 'Jumpers' can be found echoed in various forms of contemporary culture. For instance, the mosh-pits and raves of dance culture feature the convulsive and possessed movement of people shifting from agony to ecstasy.

Working with 40 strangers over the course of a day, Forsyth & Pollard sought to define the moment of abandonment when we tip in to another state. Jumpers (what must I do to be saved) is a bold and entrancing sequence of captured moments as the artists attempt to induce a state possessed by the idea of the 'Jumpers'."

Interesting, though I was distracted by the fact that one of my fillings has jumped out...