Taken from BBC Online 14 June 2007:
The Long and Winding Road
The Long and Winding Road, is a journey that perhaps in one way or another we have all taken or seen a close friend take. It is about the experience of loss, memory, mourning and recovery.
It follows the artist as he drives from Nottingham to Liverpool to collect his brother’s belongings. Pinchbeck’s brother died in an accident in 1998.
As I arrived at the Ikon, I saw a car parked outside. The car had been heavily spray-painted and was packed full of brown paper parcels. On the side of the car sprawled the title of the project. This is the car that took Pinchbeck to Liverpool and back.
As the performances began it was my role to schedule each performance and take visitors to the car. Luckily I got the opportunity to ‘take a ride’ with Pinchbeck myself and it was hard not to cry.
As I sat down next to him he offered me a travel sweet and told me the story of his journey, his eyes penetrating my soul, not directly but gazing at me through the rear view mirror.
The parcels were his brother’s belongings and each had their own personal registration number.
Later in discussion with the artist I learnt of the fate of the car, it is going to be immersed in the Mersey and then withdrawn, crushed and cut into cubes and distributed to the people that made this project happen.
Laura Dexter
http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2007/06/12/fierce_blog_5_feature.shtml
Other guest’s comments:
"The event was a whole new experience for me as I’ve never done anything like this before. I enjoyed every moment" 5/5. "Emotional, Loving and Caring" 5/5. "Distant story, yet intimate setting…very personal story – I wanted to open the parcels!" 4/5
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