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Romance Don’t Dance Alone
Romance Don’t Dance Alone
No Escape From The Flesh Pad
A Videotape By
Video performance satirising consumerism and romance. …
Means to an End
Consists of Sections:
1. Hitting the Wall
2. Drowning
3. Bag Work
4. Scream/Sink/Action/Re-Action
5. Blind Judgement …
Work, Rest and Play
The principle plot centres around the buzzing commentary of the adolescent BoyDriver, a child of the computer game generation, and his journey and rite-of-passage through a country too small to make a road movie in – even if you drive slowly. His objective is to seek out the unseen and unknown character called Frank.
As much a joy ride through the imagination as a road movie through a real place, the BoyDriver’s commentary (heard only in voice over) directs us through his thoughts, …
Faction>Dance Floor Version
A Reflection on the Art of the State
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 …
Sniper Version 2
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. …
Sniper
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’ …