In focusing upon information which is 'old news', Up and Down , Back and Forth incorporates images from the film The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin and the biographies of 'great' dictators such as Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Stalin and Franco, and collages them into the form of a reversed palm reading on a gigantic Xeroxed pair of hands. The video element of the installation is there, not as a narrative in time, but only as a specific visual presence; the film has been tampered with providing the clear form, as well as the missing semantic centre in the work.


Encouraged to relax visually in front of the video screen, the viewer is invited to summon up as many substitutions as they wish from their own experience, as if 'cannon-fodder' for the dictate of life. The formal vertigo of the computer montage serves only to hypnotise the viewer, 'the quarry'. It is up to the quarry to perform the semantic self-devouring. (LB).


Financially supported by Soros Centre for the Arts, Sofia & Visiting Arts.

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In focusing upon information which is 'old news', Up and Down , Back and Forth incorporates images from the film The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin and the biographies of 'great' dictators such as Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Stalin and Franco, and collages them into the form of a reversed palm reading on a gigantic Xeroxed pair of hands. The video element of the installation is there, not as a narrative in time, but only as a specific visual presence; the film has been tampered with providing the clear form, as well as the missing semantic centre in the work.


Encouraged to relax visually in front of the video screen, the viewer is invited to summon up as many substitutions as they wish from their own experience, as if 'cannon-fodder' for the dictate of life. The formal vertigo of the computer montage serves only to hypnotise the viewer, 'the quarry'. It is up to the quarry to perform the semantic self-devouring. (LB).


Financially supported by Soros Centre for the Arts, Sofia & Visiting Arts.