Lei Cox works with video installation, video art, performance-to-camera and photography and has shown his work worldwide since 1985. His work has often been described a surreal, humorous and science fictional. Cox began working with black and white photography, this was essentially shot straight and with no special effects where finding the unusual in everyday landscapes and portraits was the dominant theme. These early photographs were made with full-frame purity, dramatic light with high contrast and tonal exaggeration. …
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Pictorial Heroes began as a collaboration between two graduates ( Doug Aubrey and Alan Robertson ) from Maidstone College of Art seminal Fine Art Video course. With the legacy of the Falklands War and the Miner’s Strike leaving a deep emotional and creative scar, Pictorial Heroes was their way of collectively responding to the times they were living through in Thatcher’s Britain. Pictorial Heroes was a fusion between art, pop, politics and technology, …
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“I am interested in widening the field of possibilities in video by questioning the forms of representation and narration and by challenging habits organised by tradition and reinforced by the mass media, which purport to give an authentic transcription of ‘reality’, where in fact it is an ossified representation of a limited ideology.”
Marceline Mori, 1977
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Studied, and now lectures on video art, at Sorbonne University, Paris. …
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Mona Hatoum’s poetic and political work incorporates installations, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper.
Hatoum started her career in the 1980s making visceral video and performance work that focused intensely on the body. Since the early 1990s, however, she has increasingly created large-scale installations that aim to engage the viewer in conflicting emotions of desire and revulsion, fear and fascination. In her sculptures, Hatoum transforms familiar, every-day items such as chairs, cots and kitchen utensils into works that seem foreign, …
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“Born 1955, Nairobi, Kenya. One person shows include Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Walker Art Centre. A Place of Rage: Best Historical Documentary, National Balck Programming Consortium 1992. Recipient of the Frameline Award for her contribution to lesbian and gay media 1993. Sari Red is in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Museums of Modern Art, New York. Writer and editor.”
David Curtis (ed) A Directory of British Film and Video Artists. …
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Madelon Hooykaas was born in 1942 in Maartensdijk, Holland.
From 1960 to 1964 she studied and worked in photography. She attended Ealing School of Art & Design in London in 1966. In 1970 she travelled throughout the world and stayed for several months in Japan.
Elsa Stansfield was born in 1945 in Glasgow. From 1962-1965 she studied at Glasgow School of Art. Stansfield then went on to study photography and film at Ealing School of Art & …
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Steve Hawley is an artist who began working with film and video in 1981 and his work has been shown widely at video fesitvals and broadcast worldwide ever since. His practice demonstrates a long standing preoccupation with language and image shown in tapes and films such as ‘Bad Reasons’ (1982), broadcast on WGBH Boston, Channel 4 TV in Britain, The Kitchen New York and also in ‘A Proposition for Picture’ (1992). His tape ‘Trout Descending A Staircase’ …
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Mike Stubbs was Director/CEO of FACT in Liverpool. He was previously Head of Exhibitions at the Australian Centre for Moving Image, Melbourne, where he has curated and produced blockbuster exhibitions including: ‘White Noise’, ‘Stanley Kubrick’, and ‘2006 Contemporary Commonwealth’.
In the 1980s, as founding Director of Hull Time Based Arts, he established the ROOT festival and Timebase Media Centre. Encompassing a broad range of arts and media, his own practice has been internationally acknowledged. …
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