"The installation comprises eight monitors and four video sources in rough timber shipping crates which are arranged in groups of four referencing four sections of a human body and the four points on a maritime compass. Series of animated computer montages are displayed, constructed around a range of recurring images: segments of bodies, fragments of memorabilia, commodities and cultural artefacts passing over and under water in slowly dissolving sequences. Passages of text occasionally emerge, barely decipherable hand written inscriptions which only hint at their sinister origins as the log books of slave ships, invoices and bills of sale for human cargo. In the context of a society struggling to negotiate a path from the myth of a mono-racial to the reality of a multi-racial view of itself, if becomes all the more important that our view of history shifts to acknowledge the central importance of Imperial expansion and trade to the development of the industrial base of the British economy." (Keith Piper)