Screen Tests. Draft soundtrack. 3 screens. Filmed during a Creative Lab Residency at the CCA, Glasgow and on location.



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ART TORRENTS: Jeremy Blake - Century 21 (2004)

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This work, a multi-channel video and performance, commingles complex synchronised narratives, biographies and re-enactments investigating lies, need and imitation to scrutinize identity and its theft.



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A Million Lies; Once and Only Revealed After Death is a multi-channel video installation and performance, which deploys numerous references, fake identities, email scams, archetypes and biographies, texts and participants to scrutinize identity and its theft through an intense investigation on lies, need, deception, belief, imitation, superstition, deliberate misinformation equated with multiple theatre and cinematic genres, techniques and traditions. Using improvised performance-led processes it considers the fragility of identity and memory from external physical or technological sources or through the materialization of internal psychological or physiological distress. The work collides abrasively these narratives and chronologies using live and pre-recorded performance.



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A Million Lies; Once and Only Revealed After Death is a multi-channel video installation and performance which orchestrates exceedingly complex, abrasive and synchronised sets of ideas surrounding lies, imitation, deception, need, wealth, desire, belief, superstition and resources/means. Citing Nicolas Bourriaud’s Postproduction thesis its mirrors a contemporary alignment of visual art practice with DJ practice assembling and re-deploying pre-existing materials with the arbitrary, disordered, abstract. disorientating condition of the exploiting the ‘search engine’ to generate an intense narrative of collided, collage-led, editorialised extracts and references. The performance collides and synchronizes live and pre-recorded materials cued to a multi-channel video installation devised by a group of artist and performance collaborators who have worked with Alex Hetherington since November 2008. The story revolves round the correlation of four central inter-related narratives and artworks: the biography of eccentric gun heiress Sarah Winchester and the heir to her fortune and the Winchester Suite, a video installation by the artist Jeremy Blake with the falsified narratives of email scams, where a huge fortune is discovered following a violent death. The second narrative exploits and re-enacts elements of American artist Catherine Sullivan’s film works The Chittendens and Triangle of Need equating their distressing, disorientating sensibilities with the progressive dismantling of the memory and identity of Alex Hetherington’s mother. Alongside this are related references to the psychology and consequences of lying, the employment of disjointed chronologies, and extracts from selected correspondingly fake artworks, films, theatre and music, continuing to, at once, establish and dismantle identity and its values.



Alex Hetherington is an air-head, with no personality and a shameless desire to be someone else.

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Sarah Winchester séance based on Space 1999 script

A new planet is sighted, but is it habitable? By holding a seance, one of Alpha's crew becomes convinced that it is and tries to force Commander Koenig to evacuate all Alphans onto this new, green land.

conj1[0] = "are";
conj2[0] = "am";
conj1[1] = "am";
conj2[1] = "are";
conj1[2] = "were";
conj2[2] = "was";
conj1[3] = "was";
conj2[3] = "were";
conj1[4] = "I";
conj2[4] = "you"

A green isle in the sea, love (The original text is hopelessly out of date)
A fountain and a shrine (there is still time brother)
At the end of these strands of paste (20.5 Million US dollars)
My private wish begins to flake (Sarah Winchester)
My purple pearl, again Eulalie (there is still time brother)


And so, all my days are trances (Poses and fever)
All my nightly dreams (Ninja version)
Are where thy grey eye glances (Clusterbomb shrapnel)
And where the footstep gleams (Try to conceal erections and excitement)
In what ethereal dances (Ok ready let’s do it)
By what eternal streams do you taunt me Eulalie (Merril Lynch)

Veiled in white a form no man can discover (Hyde and Hyde Attorneys at Law)
Despite the tears which drip all over (To indulge in this beauty only tempts further debt)
There the traveler meets aghast (A uno uno dos tres quarto)
Sheeted memories of the past, and calls them Eulalie (Royal Bank of Scotland)

Mother Green spoke more and more of ****, in fact as if here were a real person, a person sort of like Shallow Brown, who was visiting them but wouldn’t be permanent. A kind of transitory somebody. Yes, like Shallow Brown had been. Sometimes Viola wondered if she and Mother Green had only dreamed there had been a Shallow Brown. And Viola often thought that Mother Green might be having the same thought. They were both waiting for something. And Brown had intercepted the wait. But now he was gone, As ****, said: they would have no occupation, but to wait together.

Techniques, prompts

A-Prompt, George Bailey

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