| Work Type: | video | | Date of work: | 2003 | | Materials: | medium: video
| | Measurements: | duration: 4:35 min
| | Style Period: | contemporary art | | Subject: | self-portrait, man, possession, performance | | Technique: | video | | Collection: | New Contemporaries
| | | Description: | ‘(...) A ghost or person suggestive of this; is JJ Stevens really trying to be a ghost? His pale body is inhabited by an inexplicable voice, his performance for camera both theatrical and narcissistic. It is excruciating, painful and compelling to watch him perform this exorcism to camera. Is this the theatre of spook or a cathartic moment?’ [MORE][LESS]‘(...) A ghost or person suggestive of this; is JJ Stevens really trying to be a ghost? His pale body is inhabited by an inexplicable voice, his performance for camera both theatrical and narcissistic. It is excruciating, painful and compelling to watch him perform this exorcism to camera. Is this the theatre of spook or a cathartic moment?’ | | | Source: | Selectors’ comments: J.J. Charlesworth, Cerith Wyn Evans, Hayley Newman and Rebecca Warren. “Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2003”, exhibition catalogue, Coventry, 2003 | | | Date of source: | 2003 | | | Description: | Atmospherically up-lit by a flame like glow, a shirtless man narrates, or mimes perfectly to an echo-ey, ghostly soundtrack of rambling, meaningless but enigmatic speech. [MORE][LESS]Atmospherically up-lit by a flame like glow, a shirtless man narrates, or mimes perfectly to an echo-ey, ghostly soundtrack of rambling, meaningless but enigmatic speech. | |
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