Installation info: See documents tab for full instructions on setting up projector with film (July 2016)also NB:  Film should ideally be hand loaded when put on projector as auto loading can damage filmDuring the late sixties Andy Warhol made a series of 16mm black and white films that became known as Screen Tests. These short ‘locked of' films show in shadow and high contrast various actors (notable guests or friends to his studio) staring back at the camera like moving photographs. The audience of these films is implicit within the camera’s voyeuristic gaze and the sense of life’s momentary status. This re-enactment, Screen Test (2016), positions the audience in a place once removed from the curious authenticity of the ‘original’ films. The artist-actor impostor uses appropriated shadows and aesthetics to force a questioning of intention. This degenerate film aims to check the reality and truth that has to be attributed to art for the audience to ‘believe in it’.

Screen Test

16mm, B/W, Silent, 4 Minutes at 16 FPS projected with AEKI

Installation info: See documents tab for full instructions on setting up projector with film (July 2016)also NB: Film should ideally be hand loaded when put on projector as auto loading can damage filmDuring the late sixties Andy Warhol made a series of 16mm black and white films that became known as Screen Tests. These short ‘locked of' films show in shadow and high contrast various actors (notable guests or friends to his studio) staring back at the camera like moving photographs. The audience of these films is implicit within the camera’s voyeuristic gaze and the sense of life’s momentary status. This re-enactment, Screen Test (2016), positions the audience in a place once removed from the curious authenticity of the ‘original’ films. The artist-actor impostor uses appropriated shadows and aesthetics to force a questioning of intention. This degenerate film aims to check the reality and truth that has to be attributed to art for the audience to ‘believe in it’.

Film

Installation info: See documents tab for full instructions on setting up projector with film (July 2016) also NB: Film should ideally be hand loaded when put on projector as auto loading can damage film During the late sixties Andy Warhol made a series of 16mm black and white films that became known as Screen Tests. These short ‘locked of' films show in shadow and high contrast various actors (notable guests or friends to his studio) staring back at the camera like moving photographs.

Dream Machine

Aluminium Frame, laminated glass, mirror film and paper residue

Aluminium Frame, laminated Glass and mirror film

14 minute film projection, cabinet, candlestick & candle and one knight chess piece.

A film of the artist as Wolfgang von Kempelen’s ‘Mechanical Turk’playing the ‘Knight's Tour’. Screened life size from the floor upwards.

In this fourteen minute film, Turk disguises himself as a life-sized 18th Century chess-playing automaton, The Mechanical Turk, whose technical wizardry was said to have outwitted even Napoleon, as this elaborate hoax toured around the most illustrious courts of Europe. The film shows Turk replaying the Knight’s Tour, a clever yet pointless circular ritual which takes the Knight across every square on the board in a mechanical mimicry of the “original” “fake”.

The Mechanical Turk

Automaton

Chess

Identity

Masks

Self-Portrait

Faces

A film of the artist as Wolfgang von Kempelen’s ‘Mechanical Turk’playing the ‘Knight's Tour’. Screened life size from the floor upwards.