Twelve Stations of the Cross
2025
Stations of the Cross is a live video installation composed entirely of existing webcams inside churches around the world, all found on YouTube. The work taps into an already active global network of surveillance and devotion: fixed, indifferent views of altars, aisles, pulpits and pews, streaming 24 hours a day.
Across a grid of screens, the installation cycles through these feeds in real time. Weddings, funerals, baptisms and sermons appear without warning, punctuating long stretches of near-silence and emptiness. Mourners file past an open casket in one frame while, on another, a cleaner moves quietly through a deserted nave. Much of the time, nothing “happens” at all.
The work turns God’s house into a kind of broadcast studio and asks what it means to watch – or be watched – in a sacred space. Who is the congregation now: the people in the pews or the unseen online viewers? What kind of faith is being practised when prayer is folded into a constant flow of content?
Multi-channel video installation, live YouTube streams
Across a grid of screens, the installation cycles through these feeds in real time. Weddings, funerals, baptisms and sermons appear without warning, punctuating long stretches of near-silence and emptiness. Mourners file past an open casket in one frame while, on another, a cleaner moves quietly through a deserted nave. Much of the time, nothing “happens” at all.
The work turns God’s house into a kind of broadcast studio and asks what it means to watch – or be watched – in a sacred space. Who is the congregation now: the people in the pews or the unseen online viewers? What kind of faith is being practised when prayer is folded into a constant flow of content?
Multi-channel video installation, live YouTube streams