THE WANDERING UNICORN was a proposed interactive installation aimed to complement the Unicorn Theatre, a theatre for children, in London.

A video wall stands in the grass at some distance from the theatre building. A camera hidden in the back of the wall captures live what is happening before it: people making their way to the theatre, children playing and, of course the theatre, still and constantly in the frame.

A theatre that is inspired by a unicorn cannot be but about magic and so is the video wall, too. It is a fantastical ‘radiography’ of a reality the naked eye cannot perceive. People can see at once the real people on the other side of the wall as they walk about and the spirit of the mythical animal trotting around, amongst the humans. Simply by looking at their friends on the video wall, viewers are able to see the others and the unicorn in the same picture, a unicorn that is semi-translucent as it is proper for a spirit, of course. Naturally, while the people are real (and puzzled), the unicorn is only a pre-recorded image, but that works the magic, guaranteed.