‘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.pdf here.
Performance: Tina Keane, Michael O’Pray profiles Tina Keane’s career so far for Performance Magazine, 1988.pdf here. …
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, …
In Stories, Adams fuses storytelling and performance in a reverie on reality and fiction. The artist sits alone in near darkness while, in voiceover, he relates a series of seemingly autobiographical anecdotes — “inside information” marked by irony, loss and black humor. This stark interrogation of self is accompanied by evocative narrative signifiers: a ringing telephone, a ticking clock, a naked light bulb, flickering TV images of a porn movie. The ambiguity of his stories — …
Sensible Shoes is a witty collision of fiction and reality, ironically rendered as a multi-textual pastiche of mass media and personal narratives. Adams’ fragmented collage is structured on the stream-of-consciousness monologue of an unseen woman, who collapses fantasy and the everyday as she “zaps” the television dial and skims the newspaper. Seamlessly integrating her daydreams of romance with appropriated images of violence, love and consumerism from popular British TV programs and ads, Adams tells the story of how the mass media dictates the construction of personal narratives. …
Produced for a compilation video of 1 minute pieces by various artists called ‘Miniatures’. A lurid collage of images and text appropriated from the British mass media — TV news, tabloid headlines, advertising graphics — is accompanied by a narrator’s wryly delivered anecdote on the “non-event of the year.” Boy George, Royal Couples, political scandals and Halley’s Comet vie for the title in this vivid, 60-second media time capsule. – Electronic Arts Intermix
Piece written about John Adams and his video works for the Electronic Arts Intermix Catalogue pdf here. …
Continue reading “It Seems Strange But It’s Almost Dinner Time Margaret”
Flier for ‘Video Art’ 1983-87 by Marty St. James and Anne Wilson, 1988.pdf here …
A sketch by the artist of Neon Poem for the installation ‘Shattered Neon’.pdf here. …
Narrative from Virginia Woolf by Sheila Rowbottom and Blue Beard (Fairy Tale)
The Second Link: Viewpoints on video in the eighties – A selection of essays and video works put together by Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada in conjunction with the touring exhibition. Includes information on Keanes’ ‘Bedtime Story’.pdf here …
