“Many strands unite in The Sounds of These Words, 1990, a piece made – and shown – for tv broadcast as another kind of ‘intervention’, but which demands repeated viewing. Its portrait head is ‘a speaking likeness’ in the realist tradition, but streams of text and sampled sound are used to digitally rescore the typographic revolution of the early modernists, from Marinetti to Cage and concept art, for the age of audiovisual technology and semiotics. …
A narrative in five acts, portraying formative events in Ian Breakwell’s life that shed light on his concerns as an artist. Broadcast on Channel 4 in 1988, the five acts together present a narrative on the interplay between the public world of surface appearance and social roles, and the private world of the imagination.
Channel 4 Press Release for ‘Public Face Private Eye’.pdf here.
‘Public Face Private Eye’ …
A televisual diary which takes a disrespectful attitude to the festive season. We share the artist’s provocative and entertaining thoughts, with digs at the establishment, politicians and yuletide conventions interspersed with items such as alternative Christmas recipes.
Press clipping from ‘City Limits’ including TV listing for Ian Breakwell’s ‘Christmas Diary’. pdf here.
Riverside Studios ‘Dadarama & Ian Breakwell’s Diaries’ – Artists’ works for Channel 4 Television, 1985. pdf here …
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‘My Diary is, as a personal witness, that of description and observation and speculation, pondering on what might be now: what is on the other side of that wall? that door? those closed curatins?’ – Ian Breakwell
Developed from Ian Breakwell’s published Diaries, these 21 short works provide an objective, compassionate, often humorous and bizarre view of events that happen around us daily.
Promotional Card for Breakwell’s Continuous Diary.pdf here. …
‘Dialogue for Two Players is the final version of a series of works started in 1977 with DIALOGUE FOR FOUR PLAYERS-a four monitor work, commissioned by the AIR Gallery, London. The works centre around a behavioural manipulation of a number of people (in this case two) within an environment in which they seem to have much freedom and with which they have to come to terms. The freedom is however an illusion, they may make only limited ‘moves’ …
