London Video Street Art
A live site-specific projection that works directly with existing graffiti, turning the street wall into a temporary collaboration between paint and light.
London Video Street Art is a live site-specific video-mapping work projected directly onto existing graffiti. Rather than treating the wall as a neutral screen, the piece works with the painted surface that is already there, using projection to animate, interrupt, and temporarily reframe an urban image made by other hands. The result is a short-lived encounter between street mark-making and digital light, where the wall becomes both image and site.
Because the projection can exist only on that already-marked surface, the work treats place as an active collaborator rather than a backdrop. It shows an early version of a concern that runs throughout May’s practice: digital media alter how a site is read and remembered, but they do so through timing, layering, and temporary occupation rather than replacement.
Additional notes
- Presented as live site-specific video-mapped installations onto existing graffiti in London.
- Video soundtrack by Martin A. Smith.
- Scale varied according to the site.
- Created for specific locations and not available for exhibition in another format.
- Video documentation: YouTube