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DW.⊃
2009
Installation. Performance archive. Dimensions variable.
Video, audio, archival digital prints, polaroids, posters, props
In a series of staged inversions and exaggerations DW.⊃ explores the image of ritual excess filtered through our uneasy tension between ‘media’ and ‘cultured’ histories.
The primary coloured set is a fairy-tale fashion runway which hosts a drag-act caricature of a bitingly ironic 90s folk-tale. Performed in isolation exclusively for the camera lens the object of this process is; the production of a series of poses, is; its own re-presentation as an archive.
The work collides pantomime (as industrialised carnival) with image production (fashion as counter-culture). The process is a reflexive take on ritual excess to be repackaged as exhibition.
Commissioned for Stage Fright Saturday 4 April - Saturday 23 May 2009, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow.
Web formatted extract of single channel video.
Exhibition history:
Stage Fright
Centre for Contemporary Art
Glasgow, Scotland
Exhibition website link.