REARRANGING REALITIES DVD
artist to artist interviews
The REARRANGING REALITIES DVD delivers a rare opportunity for you to view artist-to-artist interviews.
These established artists share their opinions and insights - encouraging, inspiring and challenging emerging art-makers to raise the stakes when placing their intimate selves in front of a viewer.
These candid and direct interviews also aid the demystification of artistic production for all interested parties.
Artists include: BOBBY BAKER, JOHN CARSON, PAULINE GOLDSMITH, MANDY MCINTOSH, ROBERT PACITTI, AINE PHILLIPS, FIONA TEMPLETON & LISA WESLEY
Life being a process of decay and continual repair and a struggle throughout against dangers, our thoughts, if we are to live, must mainly go the way of anticipation. We register our perceptions and experiences with an eye to our future actions; what happened in the past only matters inasmuch as it enables us to anticipate what lies in store for us… F.H. Bradley?
The DVD contains over 4 hours of material. It has been specifically authored allowing you to access themed interviews , watch complete interviews, view a brief slide show of artist’s work and further research individual artists.
The Themed Interviews include: Step outside, love ‘(losing it’ in performance); Interpretation (how the work is read); Telling Tales (inspiration & construction); Early Investigations; Collaborations; Video & technology; Critique; Connecting Outwith Art
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Donna on:
TELLING TALES
Laying myself open on stage allows the audience to enter a space of joint reminiscence, providing an equal platform to say “Your own versions of this are as valid”.
I can trace similar behaviour in all my pursuits (work and leisure).
Something about being the first person on the dancefloor, allowing others to feel comfortable and quickly join in, joyfully shaking their booty!
It took me a long time to place myself in my work.
I was intimidated to open my mouth and reveal my origins (accent, class, nationality). I hid behind humour, keeping busy by challenging national stereotypes. Pulling a thin strip of written Glaswegian insults from the neck of a plastic Irn Bru bottle. Choreographing dance, for people who can’t dance, to the songs of Alex Harvey.
Influenced by issue-based theatre of the 80’s, before coming across the abstract delights of Performance Art, I knew I still needed to address specific concerns in my creative work.
I learnt that a valuable way to demonstrate life’s discrepancies was to directly place my social interactions into the work. At the same time adding the Performance Art influence of non-linear narrative, to make the viewer work a little harder.
I continue this approach when trying to deal with ‘the universal’ through describing ‘the intimate’ - humanising dense subject matter through anecdotal asides.
INTERPRETATION
As I understand Memory more I appreciate that every element of the work is open to bias from each audience member. At the end of the day, this lack of being able to ‘control’ the audience significantly frees up the making process.
COLLABORATION
I empathise with the Artists interviewed, who admit to still ‘calling the shots’ in so-called collaborations. I recognise the economic necessity that leads to multi-tasking that leads to being a control freak!
I continue to throw diverse experts together to see what might happen, in the same way I throw disparate friends together, to see what might happen…