Created for Norman Mine’s BA Fine Art degree show, The World as a Stage occupied the exterior of The Cass with a large-scale scaffolding structure that appeared simultaneously monumental and unfinished.
The work emerged during a period of uncertainty surrounding the institution and used the exposed scaffolding as both architecture and metaphor: a structure designed to support something permanent while remaining visibly provisional.
After dark, the scaffolding became an open-air cinema. Moving images capturing small, unscripted moments from the surrounding community were projected across its surface, enlarging gestures and behaviours that would normally pass unnoticed into temporary public events.
The installation brought two forms of instability together: the uncertain future of an institution and the fleeting nature of everyday life. Architecture became screen, the street became auditorium, and ordinary behaviour became performance.
The World as a Stage asked what happens when an incidental moment is isolated, enlarged and made public, shifting the boundary between everyday life, spectacle and performance.
