'Vecuum' is taken from the French word Vecu which means lived space. This project takes its source material entirely from film samples. The pieces of film are very specific, as they are the scenes where the action takes place on a rooftop. Thus chase, fight and suicide scenes (from movies as diverse as Vertigo, Spawn, Blade Runner and Fearless) amongst others have been collected and categorized so that each video and sound track of the Vecuum project represents a specific type of action/emotional/dramatic sequence on a roof. The sound has been processed to the point where the source material is unrecognizable. The video work follows the same structure and is taken from the same source that the sound is. Again the video is processed and animated to re-animate the narratives of the rooftop.

The Vecuum project takes the rooftop as a setting to question the politics of the city and the film as systems of spatial metanarratives. 'Vecuum' asks what the sound of the over ground is…we know what the notion of the underground represents in Western culture, from the Second World War to current day notions of supposed culturally subversive activities. But what does the overground represent or rather how can it be represented as a space to contest the midflow of mainstream culture? The rooftop is often unsurveilled unlike the majority of space beneath it in a city, which instantly renders the rooftop as a plausible set for dissonant social, emotional, cultural or political actions to be enacted upon.

Rooftops in the city create a spatial matrix of lost spaces, another city of ‘archiscapes’, which is known of but not often traversed, explored or socially defined. These spaces are what Foucault elementally defined as 'heterotopia’s’ or what Lefebvre would describe as ‘l’espace vecu'- an actually lived and socially created spatiality, concrete and abstract at the same time. They 'suggest a myriad of other sites within a culture'.