Caroline Wookey sent us news of Taunton Stop Line Live, a commemorative art project, part of the Lightworks Olympic Torch celebration, spanning Somerset and Devon.
The Taunton Stop Line - see previously - is a line of World War 2 pillboxes and other defences spanning Somerset and East Devon, designed against the possibility of German land attack on the strategic port of Bristol.
Over the course of ten nights - 24 February to 4 March 2012 - the visual artist team Illuminos will be moving southward along the Line, illuminating and projecting artwork on the bunkers, along with modern local-contributed commentary, in an ongoing event to commemorate "the usage, mystery and uniqueness of the Taunton Stop Line". The final zones of the project, at the beginning of March 2012, take place at locations moving south from Axminster to the mouth of the Axe at Seaton.
The project is being coordinated through the website Taunton Stop Line Live, which collates user-submitted texts for the project, and provides locations and dates.
- RG
Taunton Stop Line Live
