blockh

Block H is an interactive installation comprised of two parts. Its name originates from The Maze/ Long Kesh prison and H-Blocks that held paramilitary prisoners up until recent times. The housing estate (Block H) featured in the Counter-Strike mod presents a comparable sense of confinement. This video game world simulates the outside environmental influences of Northern Ireland such as sectarian murals, while the sound reactive television in the installation interior considers people's relationship with the media and its icons.

The project was originally conceived as a way of documenting the murals that are fast disappearing from the landscape of Northern Ireland. Block H has developed from there to explore the wider themes of media and social memory, surveillance and censorship, and the military entertainment complex.

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