Kane Cunningham is an artist from North Yorkshire who was in the news earlier this week for buying a house, and then documenting its fall into the sea.Landscape artist Kane Cunningham has used his credit card to buy a house that is about to fall into the sea.
A bungalow at Knipe Point in Scarborough, North Yorkshire - near the scene of the infamous Holbeck Hotel
cliff collapse 16 years ago has been condemned after a fresh landslip. Cunningham states:
'I've bought a house that will be the next one to fall over the cliff. It feels like I have no choice. I'm going to rig the house with cameras and film the last sunrise before nature claims its bounty'.
'It's the perfect site-specific installation - a stark reminder of lost dreams, financial disaster and threatening sea levels. It's global recession and global warming encapsulated. This little house is feet away from the edge of the cliff - it can go at any moment. The idea is to create an artwork on a scale never been seen before in North Yorkshire and to stimulate within the imagination of the public the idea that this house falling into the sea can become a work of art. If the aim of art is to stimulate discussion and debate on issues, then surely this will get people talking.'
A bungalow at Knipe Point in Scarborough, North Yorkshire - near the scene of the infamous Holbeck Hotel
cliff collapse 16 years ago has been condemned after a fresh landslip. Cunningham states:
'I've bought a house that will be the next one to fall over the cliff. It feels like I have no choice. I'm going to rig the house with cameras and film the last sunrise before nature claims its bounty'.
'It's the perfect site-specific installation - a stark reminder of lost dreams, financial disaster and threatening sea levels. It's global recession and global warming encapsulated. This little house is feet away from the edge of the cliff - it can go at any moment. The idea is to create an artwork on a scale never been seen before in North Yorkshire and to stimulate within the imagination of the public the idea that this house falling into the sea can become a work of art. If the aim of art is to stimulate discussion and debate on issues, then surely this will get people talking.'
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