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Work Type:video installation
Date of work:1995
Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:utopia, history
Technique:video, editing, assemblage
Collection:Video Postive Archive 1989 - 2000
Description:
"The future is a gravity free zone."
Set in the crumbling edifice of a Victorian oasis, H.O.M.E offers the chance to leave the human context behind and take a step into the unknown. A colony of artists build their own Utopia, ascend and rearrange the stars to spell AMAZE across a magenta stratosphere.


Centering around a four screen video installation, the piece will archive those human achievements worth preserving, together with ideas that will help them in their production of an aerial performance of graceful technology.


With 96% of their brain's capability no longer taken up by countering the effects of gravity, this pirate colony will celebrate freedoms unthought of by ground-bound life-forms, as they spin in the ultimate void before returning to earth cleansed and refreshed. 'In the absolute proximity of surveillance systems, space is invisibility.'


In collaboration with Aerial Ambient Theatre, Timeshard, Visual Stress and Vortex, with support from Moviola. Funded by North West Arts Board, Film & Video and Combined Arts
Departments.
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Source:"Video Positive 95", festival catalogue
Date of source:1995