A Short Breakdown: 2008 Video Compendium

As the season of roundups, breakdowns, bookends and top tens has started to warm up, I thought I might compile the various videos that I've made of different events and performances over the past year and share them with you (even if they are of varied quality and potentially embarrassing)

I fell into the habit of making them, but now I harbour strange and grandiose visions of documentary director fame and fortune. Though how I'll manage that through YouTube I have no idea as of yet.

In Chronological Order:

Healing, Millman Street Community Centre, Bloomsbury, London, 17 February, 2008


Max Eastley's Kinetic Drawings At Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, 2 February to 30 April


Mark Fell At Sonar 2008


Pablo Valbuena At Sonar 2008


The Yellow Swans Last Gig, 20 June, Sonar 2008


Horatio Oratorio At Shunt Vaults, London Bridge, 11 July 2008


Guča Trumpet Festival, Serbia, 6 to 10 August, 2008


Tony Oursler At The Lisson Gallery, London, 3 September to 3 October, 2008


Banks Violette At Maureen Paley Gallery, London, 10 September to 19 October, 2008


André Avelãs At IBID Projects, London, 5 September - 5 October 2008


Susan Philipsz's Out Of Bounds At The ICA, London, 27 & 28 September 2008


Florian Hecker: Pentaphonic Dark Energy Sadie Coles HQ, 14 October to 22 November 2008

Florian Hecker @ Sadie Coles

Here's a short video doc of Florian Hecker's installation Pentaphonic Dark Energy at Sadie Coles HQ gallery in London from last month. Technically impressive with it's swish speakers: expensive Genelec's from Finland and two highly directional custom built ones. The recording can't do the spatial experience justice; in such a small room the sound could seem as present as if it where hovering somewhere near the centre of one's forehead, then phasing about the gallery quickly giving one a slightly off balance feel. A perverse sonic Feng Shui.

Adam Curtis & The Power Of Chalk Farm

Here's a rough recording of Adam Curtis (BBC Foreign Affairs Editor and the voice behind The Century Of The Self, The Power Of Nightmares and The Trap amongst others) in discussion with artist Mark Titchner at the 176 space in Chalk Farm, North London, 20/11/2008. A contrasted pairing as Curtis is articulate and forceful (to a fault sometimes) while Titchner remains mostly mute throughout.

One of the strangest and funny moments is when Curtis starts rambling on about Hippies (it's a way bit into the recording)

Note that 16 minutes in the recording cuts out for a bit as I'm not very good at recording. Also note that after this cut there's a minute or so of A/V confusion. I would edit it but I can't be asked right now.

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