Ben Fitton & Dylan Shipton

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Töne, Fort Amherst, Chatham, 2014

 

 

A temporary timber structure commissioned by Töne, a festival of sound and light around the Historic Royal Dockyard in Chatham.

 

The call for proposals specified that the work should respond to the centenary of the start of the First World War and/or the solstice.

 

The panels spell out an extract from a note for an unwritten article in Lenin's notebook from summer 1914, immediately prior to the outbreak of war in Europe, warning of the dangers of unconstrained arms build-up.