I'll walk alone - you'll never walk alone was commissioned by the Harris Museum & Art Gallery in Preston as part of temporal landscapes in 2005. The work reflects the sequential casts of the Greek and Assyrian friezes in the Harris Museum and their contents, including war scenes and games. In the 360-degree installation, viewers become part of the dynamics of a local football match and can re-enact the time sequence as a way of seeing as they circle along the image.
"I'll Walk Alone" (Sammy Kahn/Jule Styne) and "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Rodgers and Hammerstein) were songs that became popular in England during World War II. You'll Never Walk Alone is best known today as a football anthem. The song became an expression of public emotion, sung at the first football match at Wembley Stadium after World War II in memory of fallen comrades and later at the funeral of Princess Diana. The images of the film strip were taken on 15 May 2005 at a match between Preston North End and Derby County at the Deepdale Football Stadium in Preston.
A focus of Sigune Hamann's artistic works is panoramic installations with film-strips. She investigates, through interventions, how time and perception affect the construction of images. For her film-strips, Hamann uses analogue 35mm film, which she exposes with camera pans and simultaneous manual rewinding of the film roll. From these traces and eye movements, she develops spatial installations.