By 1978, Flaxton had become highly critical of the media and sought to create a didactic no-nonsense critique of the way the media generates bias against what it has been set up to work against. This work comes to the conclusion that the media itself is society’s basic governing value system reflecting and propagandising for the values of society – in a way similar to the way society does so in George Orwell’s 1984 (an issue returned to by Flaxton as part of Triple Vision in the 1983/84 work Prisoners). …
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London – Berlin – Graft – details of video screenings including Pictorial Heroes’ Reflection on the art of the state.pdf here
Review of Pictorial Heroes’ Reflection on the art of the state by Steven Bode for City Limits.pdf here
Review of Pictorial Heroes’ Reflection on the art of the state by Nik Houghton for Independent Media, 1988.pdf here …
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An extract from a television commercial:
‘An event seen from one angle gives one impression. Seen from another angle it gives quite a different impression. But its only when you get the whole picture that you can really see what’s going on.’
Sniper explores in a series of short episodes, actions, gestures and images, a number of themes of a broad cultural and political nature. In particular, these are the notions of a media of surveillance and the jigsaw nature of interpreting events and experiences. …
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Catalogue from 4.Videonale in Bonn includes information on ‘Sniper’.pdf here
Letter from Scottish Television plc, regarding the work ‘Sniper’.pdf here
Letter from The Smith Biennial Exhibition, 1987, regarding the work ‘Sniper’.pdf here
Programme for the French Institute to be shown February 16th 1988 – a personal selection by Anna Ridley. Includes ‘Sniper’.pdf here
‘Made in Scotland’ …
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Firstly, it has become increasingly evident that as you drive into the heart of any urban city, one is always aware of the great hinterlands of desolation on the periphery, tracts of industrial architecture laid to waste and housing schemes decaying as you glance at them. A glance is often all you are afforded as they are usually shielded from view by baffle banks, landscape schemes, curtain walling, embankments, or the inter-weaving complexes of fly-overs, …
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Press release detailing information on the ‘Faction>’ works, and biographical information.pdf here …
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