"Broken English" consisted of 4000 litres of water per hour, pumped over the internal surfaces of two plate glass gallery windows on the street-level frontage. Two metres behind these screens of water were two enlarged hand painted reproductions of pages from A Handbook of English intonation printed in phonetics. People on the street saw viewers inside the gallery as they attempted to read the text or look back through the distorting screen of water. Every viewer, therefore, became part of a constantly changing whole.

 

 

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