Ciara's House by The Dollhouse

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The Living Room in The Living Room - Preparatory Studies I-X + Bre[a]k[h]ages

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Michael Snow's "The Living Room" (2000, digital video transferred to 16mm film) continues to hold me in its thrall. I plan to continue to play in response to this in The Plexiglass Dollhouse; exploring the violence of slapstick, exaggerated character distortion and identity ambiguity in some kind of transparent and semi-transparent media.

The Couch Sequence

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Extract from 'Make 'em Laugh' ('Singing in The Rain' 1952)

A Theatre of Confinement. (Omnibus)

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Designed & produced as daily episodes during the first lockdown in The Netherlands (beginning March 2020)
The characters from Snow's film, reinterpreted by live 'actors' in the Preparatory Studies, feature here as plasticine models. Reluctant to lend them another dimension of character by adding voice to the animated models, with reference to graphic comics, they speak in speech balloons. With exaggerated attention on the mundane, the contrived sense of Event of the non-event, the characters make frequent reference to Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" - most especially to the character of Lucky in the play.

The Living Room (Michael Snow) - film still

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Plastics - The (under) Graduate.

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Transparent plexiglass was the material du jour in 2020...

For Anne-Marie: A souvenir from S.A.

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Hi Anne-Marie, some of the most exciting plants we came across in South Africa were pretty ferocious. Deadly, in fact. And so I brought you back a sample two of our favourites: The Devil's Tomato and The Sausage Fruit Tree. (lethal in so many creative ways!)

For David: A Souvenir from S.A.

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For you, David, a pipe: the stove in Nelson Mandela's House in Soweto against which rests the bin lid used as a shield by Winnie Mandela on an occasion the family came under attack. Also this sign:

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A man is splatted up against a wall in a bedroom. He is red from head to toe. You can see this. The house is transparent. A woman, who looks like a table, rests in the adjacent bedroom. She is blueish. There may be a dog or two of indeterminate colour and breed.

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Massacio - Madonna and Child with Angels
1426 Egg Tempera on panel.

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Post-production slapstick treatment. Corpus Callosum. digital film transferred to 16mm, Michael Snow. 2002.

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Sight gags: Woman & Child, Trafic, Jacques Tati, 70mm film, 1972

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Sight gags & chunky Madonnas (butts and boobs)

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I love Tati's gag from Trafic, where, what appear to be a woman's enormous breasts turn out to be her baby's bottom. To my amusement, this also brought to mind Massacio's Madonna & Child. Somewhere in between Massacio and the actress who is the subject of the gag, lies my chunky Madonna.

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German Pavilion, Barcelona. Mies van der Rohe.
Sculpture 'Alba' Georg Kolbe
Image source: https://www.ribapix.com/German-Pavilion-Barcelona-courtyard-with-sculpture-Alba-by-Georg-Kolbe_RIBA4832

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Image credit: By Lessismore2020 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95273386

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Image credit: A. Latina Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons