Exchange (After Tracey Emin)
2013
Digital Video
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Funded by Arts Council England, with support form Aedas Architects
A series of individuals appear to have a conversation with themselves. The converstions engage with ideas of value, self-worth, recompense and exchange.
Each participant has been chosen for their profession: an Actor, an Interpreter, a Journalist and a Spiritual Medium. They all tell other people’s stories or speak other people’s words as part of their daily life. Exchange allows them to focus on themselves and recollect – and perhaps reflect on – their own experiences.
This film is the second in a series of three in which Griffiths remakes work by exisiting contemporary artists. The first - 2 into 1 (After Gillian Wearing) - took the lip-synching format as a starting point and in Exchange the artist uses Emin’s self-duplicating video effect as its central premise. This trilogy situates itself within the established context of the female artists re-making work by other artists (Elaine Sturtevent, Sherrie Levine) or representing themselves as others (Catherine O’Sullivan, Cindy Sherman, Gillian Wearing).
A series of individuals appear to have a conversation with themselves. The converstions engage with ideas of value, self-worth, recompense and exchange.
Each participant has been chosen for their profession: an Actor, an Interpreter, a Journalist and a Spiritual Medium. They all tell other people’s stories or speak other people’s words as part of their daily life. Exchange allows them to focus on themselves and recollect – and perhaps reflect on – their own experiences.
This film is the second in a series of three in which Griffiths remakes work by exisiting contemporary artists. The first - 2 into 1 (After Gillian Wearing) - took the lip-synching format as a starting point and in Exchange the artist uses Emin’s self-duplicating video effect as its central premise. This trilogy situates itself within the established context of the female artists re-making work by other artists (Elaine Sturtevent, Sherrie Levine) or representing themselves as others (Catherine O’Sullivan, Cindy Sherman, Gillian Wearing).
