Otter-mole Cam
Dot Howard and Emma Bennett. 2008
Our video work both advances and stands in dialogue with our individual performance practices. There are points at which our ideas, approaches and personalities coincide somewhat, like a shared experience or important joke.
For us, our cameras don’t just document actions, time and places. They are the subjects of our work. They move in and out of the two worlds: production and post-production. Making video work is a compromise of what we want to do and what we feel the camera insists it does in the space that surrounds it. The camera performs. 'Otter-mole Cam' is the beginning of something we’d like to develop, it allows humans a glimpse of the world supposedly from the point of view of a creature, gaining access to a private world of burrows, undergrowth, and the undersides of cars.
DH/EB 2008
Tou Scene Residency, May 2008
We made three videos during a week in Stavanger, Norway. Extracts from these videos will be available to watch on this site in the autumn of 2008.
Working with Holly Rumble. 2008
'Castle Mall Survey', May 2008. Photograph by John Boursnell
Above Pusis Café
Dot Howard and Bill Leslie, 2008
After collaborating in 2007 for the Alytus Biennale in Lithuania, artist Bill Leslie and I are currently making a limited edition box set of 5 Artists’ books, to be published by Bonfire Books. We are re-considering and disseminating the documentation of previous performance and video projects. The books reveal things about the process of devising and making video work and performances and they act as an accessible archive of the images gathered during this process.
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Dot Howard and Emma Bennett. 2008
Our video work both advances and stands in dialogue with our individual performance practices. There are points at which our ideas, approaches and personalities coincide somewhat, like a shared experience or important joke.
For us, our cameras don’t just document actions, time and places. They are the subjects of our work. They move in and out of the two worlds: production and post-production. Making video work is a compromise of what we want to do and what we feel the camera insists it does in the space that surrounds it. The camera performs. 'Otter-mole Cam' is the beginning of something we’d like to develop, it allows humans a glimpse of the world supposedly from the point of view of a creature, gaining access to a private world of burrows, undergrowth, and the undersides of cars.
DH/EB 2008
Tou Scene Residency, May 2008
We made three videos during a week in Stavanger, Norway. Extracts from these videos will be available to watch on this site in the autumn of 2008.
Working with Holly Rumble. 2008
Sound Artist Holly Rumble and I co-run Other/Other/Other (For Art That is Difficult to Describe) and we share an interest in site-responsive work that explores the experiential and spatial qualities of sounds. We have recently devised a performance that illustrates the coming together of two enquiries, resulting in an intriguing scenario where the modified technology they employ takes on a life of its own. A public presentation of the process behind Howard and Rumble’s artwork, this performance has been described as “a live-feed science fiction B-movie”.
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'Castle Mall Survey', May 2008. Photograph by John Boursnell
Above Pusis Café
Dot Howard and Bill Leslie, 2008
After collaborating in 2007 for the Alytus Biennale in Lithuania, artist Bill Leslie and I are currently making a limited edition box set of 5 Artists’ books, to be published by Bonfire Books. We are re-considering and disseminating the documentation of previous performance and video projects. The books reveal things about the process of devising and making video work and performances and they act as an accessible archive of the images gathered during this process.
Page from 'Above Pusis Cafe' by Dot Howard and Bill Leslie, 2007
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