Anne Seagrave & Oscar McLennan: Residency
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. V, no. 2, p. 6, November/December 1993: Oscar McLennan and Anne Seagrave are performance artists from Ireland, whose…
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. V, no. 2, p. 6, November/December 1993: Oscar McLennan and Anne Seagrave are performance artists from Ireland, whose…
Artist in residence. A video production adapted from Mars’ Ms. Frankenstein performance. It takes the form of an imagistic narrative presented in the classic “infomercial” style.…
Artist in residence. Murmur is a two-channel installation, commissioned by the IKON Gallery in Birmingham, England for the exhibition Beyond Distinction. Murmur was shot largely…
This work investigates the relations between a mother and child. The tape was produced during a residency at the Western Front in 1990 and edited in 1992…
A special production. “Living Dusts pursues a variegated itinerary through videated banality, the propositional power of the written sentence and the electronic elimination of space and…
A special production. “We detect the isolation of subjectivity only when the work is finished, discrepancy is retrospective and respected, integration is therefore a byproduct.…
Artist-in-residence. Special production. Reconstructed rituals invented from her grandmother’s descriptions of African voodoo practices.
A special production. Done in tandem with Stewart’s performance work, Pilgrim-Exile, as part of his 1989 residency at the Western Front. “This video tape is…
A special production, in collaboration with Brice MacNeil (aka Art McP). The culmination of stolen bits from Vincente Minnelli’s film Some Come Running, mixed with…
A special production. Twelve short tapes designed for broadcast among the commercials that inhabit late night television. Only one spot should be transmitted on any…
Original Archive Entry: A special production. Measures of Distance is about a mother and daughter’s joyous reunion, despite a doting father’s jealous presence, during the…
A special production. Thematically inspired by institutional vs. private sector ‘devotion’ to the transcendental. As guardians of the cultural torch, theme parks and museums herd…
A special production. Abdullah arrives in a city. He phones Feniks. Answering machine. Heart Slash. Passenger. Traveller, Foreigner. Outsider. Tourist. Video poetry adapted from A…
Artist-in-residence. Special production. Rosenfeld did a performance, to which participants were invited, that included a brief entry into the justice minister’s office, the playing of…
A special production. En Attendant la Pluie (Waiting for the Rain): In voice-over, Alice Jeffrey recounts the history of the Flood in Gitksan (a Native language…
A special production, originally conceived of as an installation. Its component elements, in particular a series of three edited, 60- minute videotapes, can be screened…
A special production. An adaptation of literal imaginings inspired by descriptions in a short story written by Giorgio de Chirico in 1929 entitled Hebdomeros. Passages in…
A special production. Created on the Cubicomp computer from previous publications. The texts are arranged so that a release is experienced from the constraints of…