The Consequence

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The Consequence is a two person show developed through a collaborative process by the artists Janie Nicoll and Alex Hetherington resulting in works that collide together their individual approaches, works and practice. The work on show, including, video and sculpture, attempts to dismiss any single separate vision by synchronizing methods, edits, material. Janie Nicoll presents site specific installation and sculpture works that adapt cultural references to deliberate on the terms of interpretation and ambiguity. She works with processes of translation, scale, materials and context which rigorously and visually depict contrasts in social circumstances and human interactions in urban and rural environments. Her work often confronts the signifiers of social breakdown and maladjustment, representations of menace and disillusionment, desire and anger using a variety of techniques including recording and rearranging graffiti, burnt-out cars and smashed and discarded glass. Alex Hetherington screens video material referencing a number of sources including HOUSE/LIGHTS by the legendary New York-based Wooster Group and a series of short videos, imitating cinema trailers, promoting a remake of Fassbinder's Querelle, as well as video and sound material depicting a failed attempt at unifying the narratives of both. He also screens a video using Nicoll's texts We Are All Prostitutes. The Queen is Dead. The Emperor's New Clothes and other works framed into a tarot card reading lifted from and mimicking a scene in Fassbinder's original showing the actor Jeanne Moreau deliberating on a premonition of Querelle's downfall. Hetherington works here with the synchronization of imitation sequences that deal with readings of feminism, gender and sexuality in cinema and theatre transplanting notions of the spiritual feminine and lascivious masculine. The Consequence delivers an account of the juxtaposition of these references, themes and approaches.