Facts For The Visitor
Facts for the Visitor: Video installation, 2000 - 2004. Duration 12 minutes. Video Still A series of visits to Poland leads me to try and learn the language. Nervously, I leave behind my mother tongue and embrace the idioms and turns of phrase that I hear around me. But my experience throws up opportunities as ... Continue Reading
The Enemy
The Enemy • At the pub or in his shop he asks me why those sorts of people come over here in the first place if they don't want to live like us. He's not a bigot but it winds him up when they force their lifestyles down his throat. It's not natural, is it? ... Continue Reading
Brunswick
Brunswick Centre, Russell Square, 2003 Brunswick Centre, Russell Square, 2003 Brunswick Centre, Russell Square, 2003 Brunswick Centre, Russell Square, 2003 Notice, Brunswick Centre, Russell Square, 2003 Proposed plaque sample (computer generated image) Proposal Outline To replace the existing Camden Council Notices (see image 5) with plaques of the same format but displaying film script headings ... Continue Reading
Lookout Unit. Marble Hill, 2002 and Economist Plaza 2003
Lookout Unit, Economist Plaza, 2003. Marble Hill Park, 2002 Lookout Unit under construction, Marble Hill Park, 2002 Lookout Unit, Marble Hill Park, 2002 Lookout Unit, Economist Plaza, 2003 Lookout Unit, Economist Plaza, 2003 Lookout Unit, Economist Plaza, 2003 Press Release for Lookout Unit at the Economist Plaza In the outdoor space of the Plaza at 25 St. James’s ... Continue Reading
Junction
Junction, Video Still, 2001, Duration 3 minutes Recorded from my bedroom window in Clapham, Junction depicts children being dropped off at school and causing a large traffic jam. It is a scene repeated daily with minor variations. Soundtrack: Philip Glass, Glassworks. Junction was shown as part of Why Me Not You, at the Polish Cultural Institute 2002.
Christmas Address
The Queen's Christmas Address, Video Installation, Duration 7 minutes, January 2001 For the Queen’s Christmas Address the Queen’s speech is re-read by an Eastern European and then lip-synced to the original image. It is not clear whether we are presented with someone dressed as the queen or with the queen speaking as someone else.
Tell Me What To Say
Perpetuum Ideale selected by Justyna Niewiara for Tell Me What To Say Nick and Grzegorsz perform Tell Me What to Say at The Polish Cultural Institute, London 2001 For the performance Tell Me What To Say I will read in dialogue with Grzegorz Sztwiertnia an excerpt from Miron Baloszewski’s collection Donosy Rzeczywistosci. Despite appearances and an ostensible competence in the reading, I ... Continue Reading
Appropriate Remark
Text Selected by Grzegorsz Klaman for Appropriate Remark, Performance, 2001 Approriate Remark, Still, 2001 Proposal I will read without preparation a Polish text selected by Grzegorsz Klaman curator of the venue. I will appropriate a text as fully as I can: neither writing or choosing it nor reading it in a familiar language. As an artistic ... Continue Reading
Signs of Life
FAO Head Technician 4,355 for you at age 55 Amber Alert Keep Locked When Not in Use Angle Head Mono Aquisitions Clerk 2 Arrow Signs of Life was produced for The Queel and commissioned by Chelsea College of Art and Design prior to the building’s redevelopment as an art college in 2002. The Queel was published ... Continue Reading