Talk
Steven Paige: Artist talk & Drinks Reception
09 May 2019
Plymouth College of Art
Plymouth, United Kingdom
Exhibition
Meeting the Archive, Steven Paige
11 Apr 2019 – 1 Jun 2019
Event times
Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 1pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Tavistock Place
- Plymouth
England - PL4 8AT
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Plymouth Train Station
Event map
Meeting the Archive is the culmination of the practice component of the artists PhD including new and existing work that investigates how artists are able to draw attention to the instability and heterogeneity of archives.
About
The exhibition is made up of a series of moving image works created through seeking and responding to instructive footage held in collections within institutions. Taking a performative, semi-autobiographical approach, the artist seeks to find and create relationships between himself and the found films.
The work takes a playful approach to watching bodies ‘perform’ and then uses re-enactment strategies to interpret and physically explore new ways of understanding the archive. Within this, Paige’s ongoing interests in personal betterment, instruction-led activity, humour and his lived experiences are played out.
Footage used in the work has been taken from the online Prelinger Archive, the Macdonald Collection, Library of Congress, USA, and intersected with the returns from online searches. Key terms including, ‘learning’, ‘sport’, ‘leisure’, ‘training’ and ‘education’ were used to discover films that encourage viewers to watch and learn.
www.stevenpaige.com
