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Anyone else isn't you is a 30 minute unscripted portrait of fourteen young people talking directly to the camera about love and loss. Iain and Jane use the premise of the homemade compilation cassette ('mix tapes') as a trigger to spark each of their subjects into talking candidly. Watch a short online video excerpt of the work. Iain and Jane's dymanic pace of editing jumps back and forth between the subjects, mixing meaning and blurring narratives to heighten the oscillations between moments of brash self-confidence and crushing uneasiness.
Some of the participants impart stories about their lovers, some share stories of unrequited or lost love. All describe similar moments and emphasize their need to make connections to others through music they love. The mix tape acts as a powerful device; Iain & Jane describe compilation tapes as "an intimate and personally curated mnemonic archives". Each of the collection of songs, operates as a souvenir of a remembered person and time. Participants in Anyone else isn't you were: Jane Abernethy, Jodie Banaszkiewicz, Ruth Barlow, Mike Clewley, Francesca G. George, Karl Hall, Tom Hatfield, Jennifer Lewandowski, Hannah Overton, Chris Tate, Chris Warmington, Janine Warren, James Williams and Sarah Wilson.
Anyone else isn't you is a video work made as part of Iain and Jane's ongoing Precious Little series. It was produced specially for an exhibition of the series titled Anyone else isn't you at the London gallery The Hospital. The series began with earlier related works, Everybody else is wrong made in 2004 for Pavilion in Montreal and Fucked up lover made in 2001 for Hobbypop Museum in Dusseldorf. For each of the works Iain and Jane invite around 14 people from a very loosely associated social group to participate. JJ Charlesworth's essay for the catalogue accompanying The Hospital's exhibition of Anyone else isn't you focussed specifically on the public and personal in the project. "'Anyone else' is a song that points
us to everything its subjects are, outside the frame, beyond the
video screen, and beyond the words of the lyric sheet; life that
is always more than the soundtrack that goes with it." More... Watch a short online video excerpt of the work.
Anyone else isn't you First exhibited in Anyone else isn't you at The Hospital in London from June - July 2005. Touring to George Rodger Gallery, Maidstone from October - December 2005. Online project specially commissioned by JJ Charlesworth, exhibitions curator at the University College for the Creative Arts:
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