'Juggernaut Sunset' by Tod Hanson. Photograph by Richard Davies.

Tod Hanson:
'juggernaut sunset'
landguard Fort
July 2010

Tod Hanson’s installation, 'Juggernaut Sunset’, presented a kind of fairground mausoleum, in which an ark/ship-like canon and casket was beached, stranded over walls or waves, like the fort’s vaulted rooms, tunnels and deflective curves. His installation encouraged visitors to consider trade and war; the invasion of the fossil-fuelled global infrastructure and consumer delirium outside, and the festivity and war-torn ruin within the obedience and boredom of garrison life and functional forms of military architecture.

Tod Hanson is interested in a world ‘over amplified’ and ‘speeding up’, the telescoping of industry, consumerism, technology, celebration, waste and war through time. He studied graphic design at the London College of Printing, then did an MA in Public Art at the Chelsea College of Art. He has undertaken numerous public art commissions and residencies for organizations that include the National Trust and the Big Chill Festival.

'Juggernaut Sunset' by Tod Hanson. Photograph by Richard Davies.

'Juggernaut Sunset' by Tod Hanson. Photograph by Richard Davies.