This video features an interview with the artist, James Capper, who has recently installed RIPPER on the grounds of the Cass Sculpture Foundation in Goodwood, West Sussex. The piece is shown in operation as the large mechanical arm claws into the ground and quite literally ‘rips’ a path within its new woodland setting at the sculpture park.

Here, we see Capper demonstrating the movement of the piece via levers of the control box– an important element of the work that effectively places the viewer in control of this ‘tool for making art’. Capper describes the RIPPER as a ‘floor marking’ machine; the structure being the cross between a ‘tower crane ‘ and a ‘drag hoe.’ The marks that it makes are the effect of the viewers’ active participation.