A Form that Accommodates the Mess: Duncan Campbell and the Mediated Archive by George Clark

01.09.09
Falls Burns Malone Fiddles, Duncan Campbell, courtesy of LUX “Television has been attacking us all our lives, now we can attack it back,” Nam June Paik, 1965. With this statement, video art pioneer Nam June Paik, established the basic conditions for Video Art and the new found ability to respond to the technology of mainstream media. But the wider implications of this statement arguably have ...
Found Film Footage by George Clark

01.09.09
Rose Hobart, Joseph Cornell “One need not look for new, as yet unseen images, but one must work with existing ones in such a way that they become new,” Harun Farocki. To accompany the article on artist filmmaker Duncan Campbell’s use of archives for his acclaimed films Bernadette (2009) and Falls Burns Malone Fiddles (2003) here are seven works representing different facets of found footage ...