Walking After Acconci (production still)

This is Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's first solo show with Kate MacGarry. For this exhibition, Iain and Jane presented Walking After Acconci (Redirected Approaches), a new film work.

Still from Walking After Acconci

Walking After Acconci (Redirected Approaches) references a seminal video work made in 1973 by performance artist Vito Acconci. In it, Acconci paces the length of a corridor, talking to an absent ex-lover. Forsyth and Pollard have worked closely with Plan B (679 Recordings), a sharp-tongued young MC, to update the script and re-shoot the video, liberally adopting the style and aesthetic of contemporary urban music videos.

The resulting film is a combination of reconstruction and revision, a double-take, a superimposition paralleling two eras, two forms of cultural expression and two dialogues; the dialogue with the Acconci piece and the dialogue with the camera - the viewer, you.

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, London. July 2005 [photo: Jet]

Iain and Jane's practice recapitulates Duchamp's challenge to the authored one-off and pushes beyond any simple re-presentation of culturally significant moments to project an alternate testament of reality.

Location of Kate MacGarry

Walking After Acconci (Redirected Approaches)
Kate MacGarry
95-97 Redchurch Street
London E2 7DJ
Tel +44 (0)20 7613 3909
mail@katemacgarry.com

16 September - 24 October 2005
Open Thursday to Sunday 12.00 - 18.00 or by appointment
For more information, visit the gallery web site:
www.katemacgarry.com

 

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