Play the story /
Play the story /
Matthew Buckingham.
- London : Camden Arts Centre, 2007.
- 4 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre, 27 April - 1 July 2007; Dundee Contemporary Arts, 17 November 2007 - 20 January 2008.
4 volumes: Play the story -- The spirit and the letter -- False future -- Everything I need.
Matthew Buckingham's new film and video works re-imagine the lives of pioneering figures. Mary Wollstonecraft appears as a ghost whose legacy is unsettled. Objects within the gallery space bring you closer to the action and her responses to the 21st-century. Matthew Buckingham's re-investigation of history addresses present-day realities such as the impact of globalisation and colonialism. The Spirit and the Letter portrays 18th-century writer and social reformer Mary Wollstonecraft, using her own words and work so that she appears to reflect on past conditions from the 21st-century. It encourages us to consider what elements and social dynamics have changed and the way in which her legacy has and continues to be contested. Everything I Need imagines the thoughts of psychologist and radical feminist Charlotte Wolff on her return to Germany following exile in the 1930s. In False Future, Buckingham re-stages a film by Louis Le Prince, an early pioneer of cinematography. A site specific installation Specularia engages with the history of Camden Arts Centre - its architecture and changing function throughout time.
Text in English with parallel French translation.
9781900470667 1900470667
Buckingham, Matthew
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre, 27 April - 1 July 2007; Dundee Contemporary Arts, 17 November 2007 - 20 January 2008.
4 volumes: Play the story -- The spirit and the letter -- False future -- Everything I need.
Matthew Buckingham's new film and video works re-imagine the lives of pioneering figures. Mary Wollstonecraft appears as a ghost whose legacy is unsettled. Objects within the gallery space bring you closer to the action and her responses to the 21st-century. Matthew Buckingham's re-investigation of history addresses present-day realities such as the impact of globalisation and colonialism. The Spirit and the Letter portrays 18th-century writer and social reformer Mary Wollstonecraft, using her own words and work so that she appears to reflect on past conditions from the 21st-century. It encourages us to consider what elements and social dynamics have changed and the way in which her legacy has and continues to be contested. Everything I Need imagines the thoughts of psychologist and radical feminist Charlotte Wolff on her return to Germany following exile in the 1930s. In False Future, Buckingham re-stages a film by Louis Le Prince, an early pioneer of cinematography. A site specific installation Specularia engages with the history of Camden Arts Centre - its architecture and changing function throughout time.
Text in English with parallel French translation.
9781900470667 1900470667
Buckingham, Matthew