Internal Dissolve (2020)

Video

Commissioned: Stanley Picker Public Lectures, Kingston School of Art, ACTS online series

‘Internal Dissolve’ is imagined as a tourist video of sorts. The assembled material constitutes a hot crowd containing an extract from a Pier Paolo Pasolini screenplay, tourist footage (frequently the artist’s own) and footage from people testing camera functions only to get distracted by details of the world made special by the viewfinder. The tourist is adept at being a bit bored and then engrossed by some thing or other, a speculating presence engaged in, or thinking about, the possibility and cost of further escapes.

precursor:

Internal Dissolve (2018)

Newsprint publication
60 cm x 30cm

Dublin Art Book Fair at Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2018)
Aquired by The National Irish Visual Arts Library as part of the Broken Diorama collection (2018)

Newsprint publication that proposes making writing under the influence of the moving image by expanding upon an extract from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s screenplay, St Paul (1977), which did not secure funding to become a film.

‘What would it be to dissolve internally, or to fade? Like a night of serious drinking I imagine, but I know this is Marseille and a population of fictional sailors -unpaid extras sharing cigarettes -are pressing in.’