The smell of gunpowder that a recently discharged canon gives off has a particularly strong resonance for some. It reminds them of the weekends of their childhood; when mentally unstable adults forced them to don breeches, hose and jerkins in order to take part, against their will, in an act that is at best bizarre and at worst perverted: re-enacting the English Civil War.
A look at Susan Hiller’s work in relation to this year’s Art Sheffield 2010: Life a User’s Manual citywide exhibition.
Entering the bike shop with its array of gadgets, alien lingo and Lycra clad leg shavers was too daunting an undertaking for this self-conscious teeny-bopper: both literally and metaphorically I didn’t have the bollocks.
An interview with Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead. The artists behind the Site Gallery’s latest exhibition.