Homage 1&2

Homage  I (video)                                                   Homage II (video / performance)

Homage  I 

2006 single channel digital video 6mins 50secs
, colour sound

First exhibited, Arteba
Buenos Aires, Argentina 2006

Homage 2

2006 live performance
plus single channel projected digital video 6mins 50secs , colour sound

First exhibited, All
Ears, London Contemporary Music Festival, London

Homage is a video portrait and
live performance taking its cues from ‘other’ less popular, often forgotten
cultural communities. Based on the notion of connectivity, it is a transmission
from one time and space to another with no limitations. The work uses the
simple object of a hat to engage the person, the hat representing community. It
attempts to address the viewer in a direct but purposeful manner, locating
values of being via image, movement and sound, reaching for a sense of
consciousness.

People
have a high intelligence that is often discredited by systems, institutions and
mainstream politics – creativity can release this via technology, tapping into
individuality within a sense of place and global community. ‘Communitas’ means
'the same' but at the centre of the same must exist the individual. In a world
where global connection can potentially come to demonstrate a sense of ‘flesh
isolation’ Homage relates to a sense of personal history (Grandfather),
creativity (Beuys) and community in place and time.