A slide projector in the dark loops a carousel of slides; some found, some new, contrasting a pastoral idea of England with a dull reality. Accompanied by an audio collage recorded on the A13, London.
Bring Me My Chariot of Fire! is a name pulled from Blake’s Jerusalem, a searing critique of England that we transformed into our second national anthem. This line today evokes the car, an invention that rumbles in the background of national identity. Bring Me My Chariot of Fire! pulls together material from the A13, an English roadscape defined by post-industrial anachronism, and anonymous photographic slides from the 70s and 80s that build pictures of English ideology and identity through the landscape, while interjections from the A13 bring them down.
