‘1986 – after all the words and images – this is what’s left. A fragment found on a wasteland somewhere in Britain.’
Looking back, this work was a response to – amongst other things – the continued laying to waste of the country’s industrial heartlands >> a sense of lost energy >> the climate of the country after the Miners Strike >>the bombing of Libya by the USA >>a reflection on the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, …
‘The Cover Up’ takes the form of an improvised diatribe spread over several years of Conservative Party rule, by a member of this country’s ‘underlying trend’. In addressing a number of subjects and events that evolved over the period – unemployment, unions, the role of art making, unemployment, civil defence, economic policy, unemployment, Iran, Hysel, Chernobyl, bureaucracy, hypocracy, unemployment… – the tape takes two differing styles, an un-coordinated rant across a range of issues by a man wandering King Leah-like through a desolate factory site and the interjection of a sophisticated ‘voice of reason’ …
