The W5 Project is a performance piece in which I assume the persona of a character who sets about photographing W5 buses each time one passes another on their route, and collects her findings as data. The performance is documented photographically. The performance of precise data collection is documented in a list, a table and a map.

This project juxtaposes the real and the ideal. The persona I assume acts according to a predesigned plan - to note and photograph incidents of bus crossings, and the W5 itself is driven according to a theoretical schedule. But the real world manifestations of the bus timetable - the buses - produce a set of unpredictable data as the buses never cross twice in the same place. The piece also tells the story of a character who sets out to make things neat, smooth and systematic (as the excessively formalised presentation of the data shows) in a reality of flux that is irreducible to clean facts and figures (hence the unfocussed, skidding photographs). The relationship between the real and the ideal is also explored in my relationship with the character I take on.