ARTISTS INFORMATION 10 JUNE 2009 ALEX HETHERINGTON
Alex Hetherington is a performance-based visual artist. He is presenting a new performance at Reveal/Reset and an installation Heavy Influence at EAF 2009. Recent and current performances, exhibitions and screenings include OPA 0.2 ON Performance Art, BIOS, Athens, Greece, Creative Lab, CCA, Glasgow, I am Kurious Orange, David Cunningham Projects, The Colony Room, New Langton Arts, Skank Bloc Bologna, Tart, all San Francisco, USA, B-Sides, New York, Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria, and the group show Mineral Park, a self-generating multi-channel video installation, The Park Gallery, Falkirk. Recent writing includes Starship, Joan Jonas, Cell Space, Catherine Sullivan, Dexter Sinister and Jimmy Robert and has received commissions to write for Site Gallery, Sheffield, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Biennale Independents and Transmission Gallery, Glasgow. He lives and works in Scotland and California.
YES O YES. Video from I Am Kurious Orange installation. Curated by Anne Colvin at David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco. Anne Colvin, Alex Hetherington, Karla Milosevich, Marc Arthur.
Accompanies performance, prints, sound & the Shyness Compendium.
A MILLION LIES ONCE AND ONLY REVEALED AFTER DEATH (TRIANGLE OF NEED). 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)
His latest subject is Sarah Winchester, the eccentric heir to a firearm fortune. .... Mark Leckey - Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) · Francis McKee - In ... - Similar pages
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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.
YES O YES/STAGE FRIGHT. Performance, Saturday 30 May at David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco. Curated by Anne Colvin.
Improvised texts from Dada, a review on the French neo-Fluxus artist Jimmy Robert, Fall lyrics, notes on shyness, Marcel Duchamp, St Anthony and jokes on mental health. Accompanied by The Shyness Compendium booklet.
I Am Kurious Orange is an exhibition, a rehearsal, a residency and a one night final performance conceived specifically for the DCP project space. Inspired by the long-term creative association between dancer Michael Clark (Scotland) and U.K. band The Fall (lead by Mark E. Smith) the exhibition takes it’s initial cues from the Clark/ Fall collaboration on the ballet ‘I am Curious, Orange’ and the accompanying soundtrack, released under the title ‘I am Kurious Oranj’.
Each week a different lead artist and collaborators will use the front room as a rehearsal space - responding through voice, music, text, objects and video to various elements within the show.
I Am Kurious Orange will culminate on May 30th in a one night production in three acts building on the rehearsals and material developed by each lead artist. The last night of the exhibition will transform into a live collage of costume, idiosyncrasies and extravaganzas.
