Conic Studies
In parallel with Conic Trilogy a series of 13 studies have been made, these short video works are like notations or scraps of important material initially uniform and fragmented that gradually form into the literary equivalent of short stories. Intrinsic to the production of all these works is the research process, gathering together from across a wide spectrum of moving imagery, ‘stuff’ that has at some level the potential for the construction of an artwork. Whilst the major works have as an important element, duration, time taken for the viewer to experience the video, the intensity building over a period of time, the studies are of necessity short, cryptic, the editing is almost brutal which leads to an economy of means that by its very nature does not allow the viewer to dwell upon any one image. We get the sense of entering the work which has been in some way already ongoing prior to us, similarly there is no sense of an ending in the traditional sense of there being a closure, we are left suspended as if we have by some accident become a party to an event albeit one that will have serious ramifications.
The studies, would be shown in a different context, what has been important in making them is the recognition that what was initially a process of 'thinking aloud' through making short pieces have a value beyond this initial starting point .They exist as studies in the sense that they use some of the extensive raw material collected and researched prior to making the Trilogy. They are intended to be shown separately from Conic Trilogy.
Exhibition:
2010- Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2012 - Born in 1987: The Animated GIF, The Photographers' Gallery, London
