This text was instigated at Paragon Studios in Belfast for the exhibition PALISADE.
(Part of the #Peacewalls50 Series of events)
It will develop over the course the exhibition.

/ The Interface /
- The Interface is a system of control.

- The Interface manages and controls both spatial and inter-personal relations.

- The Interface is reinforced concrete, brick, steel, metal sheet, razor wire and mesh.

- The Interface mutates by adapting to local conditions, both real and perceived.

- The Interface is an equilateral triangle with the word ‘VISION’ at its apex.

- The Interface is a manifold of local adjustments and modifications.

- The Interface is material, opacity, dimension, solidity and communicative value.

- The Interface alternates between barrier and backdrop.

- The Interface is 9 feet deep underground wall, built in the City Cemetery in the 1880s.

- The Interface actively encourages, maintains, and polices separatist conditions.

- The Interface is both system and sign.

- The Interface truncates through-roads.

- The Interface engenders ghettos.

- The Interface generates space for temporary businesses, both legitimate and otherwise.

- The Interface is a medium for the reproduction of closure.

- The Interface is a canvas that accepts pigmentation.

- The Interface eradicates horizon.

- The Interface splits a park in half.

- The interface is a form of relation.

- The Interface closes roads.

- The Interface constructs interstitial spaces.

- The Interface is a particular pattern of local shopping habits.

- The Interface is PRONI HA/32/2/55.

- The Interface is scanned by multiple video cameras simultaneously.

- The Interface resists landscaping initiatives.

- The Interface pretends it is not an Interface.

- The Interface harbours small broken trees.

- The Interface is witness to scenes of violence and killing .

- The Interface presents Bob Marley, Che Guevara, and Nelson Mandela.

- The Interface supports art projects that have no meaning.

- The Interface is a perceived loss of tourist revenue.

- The Interface is haunted by low-res, high-contrast faces.

- The Interface is a support for melted materials that form local encrustations.

- The Interface shields fires, locally blackening metal grates.

- The Interface is 7 locations where roads have gates that are closed occasionally.

- The Interface generates furtive glances.

- The Interface is a cluster of flowers tied to a tree next to a metal mesh gate.

- The Interface closes at 4pm.

- The Interface is a memento mori, a network of remembering.

- The Interface is offset lines of boulders, palisade fencing, metals sheets.

- The Interface is an enclosed piece of ground, inaccessible, filled with debris.

- The Interface is viewed from watchtowers.

- The interface is a quick look over your shoulder.

- The Interface exfoliates over time, revealing remnants of past events.

- The Interface is an uprooted tree, discarded on the grass, next to an empty bag of crisps.

- The Interface opens at 6.30am.

- The Interface guides runoff from industrial processes.

- The Interface tries to erase itself.

- The Interface comingles the military-industrial with the domestic.

- The Interface is five concrete blocks mis-aligned.
- The Interface is an index of deaths recorded straightforwardly and with equal respect.

- The Interface is a paint-ball machine.

- The Interface supports strange forms of plant growth.

- The Interface cuts down oak trees that block a visual axis.

- The Interface is GOC Lieutenant-General Sir Ian Freeland, dealing with things on the ground.

- The Interface is multiple shards of broken glass next to a concrete bollard.

- The Interface oscillates between conditions of ‘porosity’ and ‘lock-down’.

- The Interface is a statistic.

- The Interface attempts to be decorative, varying its silhouette through facetted extrusions.

- The Interface is primarily in Flemish stretcher bond.

- The Interface is a curve of large concrete cubes, tied together with horizontal scaffold bars and clamps.

- The Interface occasionally cleans its brickwork of unwanted messages.

- The Interface is a pink shipping container that supports a car-wash business worked by eight Romanians.

- The Interface is an irregular pattern of dents caused by projectiles of various classes and types.

- The Interface can become a row of shops with space for a suicide hotline.

- The Interface is a paramilitary mural overgrown with small shrubs surmounted by a large advert for the Ulster Bank.

- The Interface is a park that resembles a military cemetery.

- The Interface is reference code UK INT-ARC PA2015 CL09-P0001.

- The Interface is gold-enameled celtic knotwork on dark polished stone.

- The Interface is an array of monochrome faces surrounding a local map.

- The Interface is a fence that is bigger than a house.

- The Interface supports plywood cut-outs of Pac-Man characters floating above the surrounding landscape.

- The Interface has tri-partite classical proportions.

- The Interface is to be reduced to a ‘normal’ size, some time in the future.

- The Interface supports non-committal light industrial sheds.

- The interface is an MP4 video file on YouTube, with justification for a riot explained in fluoro-pink font.

- The Interface is a warning sign bleached white by fire.

- The Interface is a curving line following the motorway.

- The Interface is a matrix of responsibility for 54 interface structures, 41 walls or fences and 13 gates.

- The Interface attracts used tires.

- The Interface is a landscape of inscription.

- The Interface is a band of pink sheet metal, tap-welded at lapped edges.

- The Interface is a strange feeling that creeps over you.

- The Interface is a yellow sun painted over a uniform blue sky on corrugated metal sheet.

- The Interface mutates as the conditions mutate over time.

- The Interface is an abandoned cross-community family centre with broken windows throughout.

- The Interface is emblematic of contested origins.

- The Interface is a parody social media account, adding fuel to the fire.

- The Interface is a fantasy landscape, a ‘Secret Garden’ in red lettering, next to a metal-shuttered window.

- The Interface is an institute for conflict research..

- The Interface is the possibility of sealing-off access to prevent infiltration.

- The Interface enfolds various institutions of the state including Gaols, Police Headquarters and Army Compounds.

- The Interface stretches from mountain to motorway ring.

- The Interface is an attitude hardening.

- The Interface is a communications site purchased by the Ministry of Defence.

- The Interface is the hope for collective acceptance of a shared narrative.

- The Interface is a discussion regarding the optimal conditions for contact.

- The Interface is an array of video surveillance screens monitoring the situation in real time.

- The Interface configures openness and closure.

- The Interface is organised geographically by cluster.

- The Interface is the word SECRET in red ink, stamped on the top-middle and bottom-middle of each page.

- The Interface is formal government decisions, including the information and evidence placed before Ministers.

- The Interface is a 15 feet high weldmesh fence installed above a10 feet high school perimeter fence.

- The Interface is Greenstone (Dark Red) to Porphyritic Trachyte (Orange).

- The Interface is a wider trend of cul-de-sac planning facilitated by ongoing planning initiatives.

- The Interface is 67 hectares of adjacent wasteland.

- The Interface is local residents being surveyed out.

- The Interface encircles enclaves.

- The Interface is the continual occlusion of the 'day after' question.

- The Interface is an immaterial psychic dimension.

- The Interface adapts, folds, creases, extends and disappears as local conditions demand.

- The Interface is a published policy that specifies a government goal by 2023.

- The Interface is Trend Analysis: Contested Space.

- The Interface does not register on the current OS map.

- The Interface is contoured by fear.