www.kimcolemanjennyhogarth.co.uk

From an interview with the artists (Jerwood Visual Arts 2012)

Our blog - kimcolemanjennyhogarth.co.uk - is an on-going archive of short videos made separately to be shown together. Creating a blog has been a way for our recorded videos to function more like our works that use live video feeds, where the content is potentially endless.

We’re interested in how the content of a video is edited and compiled. We often create parameters when making a video and whatever happens within these limits becomes the footage. With this work for Assembly – where we have been making videos as we move around – we started letting the movement of the camera when travelling in a train, a car, on escalators, walking, or whatever, determine the content and length. For previous works using CCTV footage, we let the cameras’ automatic pre-set positions select the content of the installation, and we have made videos where we expose the camera to changing light conditions, demonstrating the limits of the camera’s automatic light aperture and focus.

The content of the videos reflect the medium we’re using and our experience of creating the work. We post to the blog alternately. As the videos have accumulated they have mirrored each other at points. Symmetry and repetition in the videos themselves reflect this conversational dynamic, picking up on an idea in an earlier conversation or responding to a previous video in the sequence.

Our works also capitalise on video’s inherent relationship to light and its intrinsic link to how we see, how cameras work and to the fundamentals of representation and perception. They draw out links between video and performance, especially how objects can seem to perform through interaction with a lens, and how people perform consciously and unconsciously in relation to a camera. We’re interested in how the camera is a prop in the performance of making the video. What our cameras record is changed by the events it is exposed to, and the subject is also altered by the presence of a camera.

kimcolemanjennyhogarth.co.uk has been shown as part of ASSEMBLY, a Jerwood Encounters exhibition of newly commissioned work by artists who work collaboratively and are influenced by the current digital landscape. The website provides a space for further conversation and includes images, videos and links from exhibiting artists Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth, The Hut Project, Charlie Woolley, curator Sarah Williams, with conversations conducted by James Smith, Editor of thisistomorrow.info.

kimcolemanjennyhogarth.co.uk was also enabled by a LUX/Leverhulme Trust travel and exhibition fund. The work was shown as part of Detroit, an exhibition of works create by LUX Associate Artists. The exhibition also featured work by Lucy Clout, Cara Tolmie, Paul Abbot, Erik Blinderman, Mark Barker and Maria Tanaguchi

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