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Work Type:	video
Date of work:	2005
Materials:	medium: DV PAL video
Measurements:	duration: 1.30 min
Style Period:	contemporary art
Subject:	identity, racism, language, cigarettes
Technique:	filmmaking
Collection:	New Contemporaries Greenland Street

Description:	As the audio plays a re-enacted conversation between a store owner and a customer of Chinese origin buying cigarettes. The unspoken and unconscious antagonistic and racist thoughts of the characters is presented in subtitles. The images play random associated stills of a man of Asian appearance along with various outdoor scenes including a "7 Eleven" store. [MORE] [LESS] As the audio plays a re-enacted conversation between a store owner and a customer of Chinese origin buying cigarettes. The unspoken and unconscious antagonistic and racist thoughts of the characters is presented in subtitles. The images play random associated stills of a man of Asian appearance along with various outdoor scenes including a "7 Eleven" store.

	Name		Type		Year		Date		ID
	Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2006		1		2006		10/11/2006 - 20/12/2006		60
	Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2006		1		2006		16/09/2006 - 22/09/2006		59