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TV documentation of Exhibition in Birmingham 1984 …
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Mask to Mask, Act 5 of the public Face Private Eye series for Channel 4, 1988. Image courtesy: Annalogue Productions. …
Made in collaboration with composer, Ron Geesin. Breakwell and Geesin initially studied audience reactions across the UK in a variety of theatrical settings, taking fly-on-the-wall photographs and video footage with sound recordings using parabolic microphones and ‘bugged seats’. Their belief confirmed that in dynamic live theatre the audience becomes part of a two-way performance, radiating an equivalent range of emotional expression to that emanating from the stage, they went on to work with and eventually record a 50-strong ‘performing audience’ at the Hawth Theatre. …
The monumental, video sculpture «Les larmes d’acier» (Tears of Steel) consists of 27 monitors, 6 laser discs, and 6 laser-disc players, installed in a piece of black box architecture. Seen running in perfect synch on all the monitors are various images of athletic young men in the act of training their muscles. With their pronounced physiognomy and builds, they embody the type of muscle man considered a clone. The camera pans slowly over their faces, …