‘Escalator’ – Tina Keane, Forward by Greg Hilty and Kate Macfarlane for brochure to accompany the Tina Keane installation ‘Escalator’ at Riverside Studios Gallery, London 1988

‘Escalator’ – Tina Keane, Forward by Greg Hilty and Kate Macfarlane for brochure to accompany the Tina Keane installation ‘Escalator’ at Riverside Studios Gallery, London 1988

Forward by Greg Hilty and Kate Macfarlane for brochure to accompany the Tina Keane installation Escalator at Riverside Studios Gallery …

‘Bob and Jill (Pt 2)’: Piece written about John Adams and his video works for the Electronic Arts Intermix Catalogue

‘Bob and Jill (Pt 2)’: Piece written about John Adams and his video works for the Electronic Arts Intermix Catalogue

In Bob and Jill (Pt. 2), the relation between fact and fiction in the personal and popular narratives of everyday life is rendered in an assemblage of soap opera conventions, performance and documentary. Opening with on-screen text that relates “The Story So Far” (“Jill crashed the Volvo….”), Adams intercuts several parallel story lines. He assumes a fictional role to recount the personal histories of Bob and Jill. Bob is seen boiling an egg for breakfast, …

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