Press release detailing information on the ‘Faction>’ works, and biographical information.pdf here
Exhibiton information on Pictorial Heroes’ Faction > All The King’s Forces exhibited at the 92nd Society of Scottish Artists exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. pdf here
Publication of The Society of Scottish Artists 1986 exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. Work shown includes Pictorial Heroes’ ‘Faction > All The King’s Forces’. …
Under the direction of Ian Breakwell and Mike Leggett, labourers spend a day shovelling earth around in a circle of piles in the upper gallery space (at Angela Flowers Gallery, London). The action is relayed by closed-circuit video to a monitor in the ground floor gallery window, and is often confused by passers-by with activities of Apollo 14 astronauts on the Moon, showing on most televisions elsewhere.
The durational video event ‘One’ may be the first UK video performance/installation piece. …
Consists of Sections:
1. Hitting the Wall
2. Drowning
3. Bag Work
4. Scream/Sink/Action/Re-Action
5. Blind Judgement …
1980, San Francisco and the Brit tries to tell the yanks how it is – then years later Trump comes along….
youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkoXLFWKKyU …
a short, shot around 1982 – some interesting ideas around memory and knowing – Terry Flaxton
youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEmdczBpe5A
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I think the first bit of video I was involved in was in 1976. I’d shot film before in 1971. But my art practice started around ’76. We made a few pieces, one was called U2 38 which was a very early promo. It was a punk anti-nuclear promo, which was a combination of film and video and then we made Presentiments, which was looking at the way in which you read the screen, how you read duration, …
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). …
