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“Do you remember where you were at five two?”
We live in a society where saturated by information and live coverage
of events, today’s headline news becomes tomorrow’s
entrenched bigotry, xenophobia and racism…
…a year’s collection of imagery from newspaper headlines,
articles, stories and events has been appropriated, cut into bits
and regurgitated in a new form; overlapping, juxtaposed, obscure
and animated into a scrolling digital montage. Consisting of fifty
two interlinked parts, this artwork aims to create an alternative
commentary on cotemporary news (events and representation) which
in part encourages the viewer to recall and question their memory
of history and the use of dates and numbers to signify events.
…part automatic, part fact, part fiction, part interactive,
part jigsaw, part lies, part pastiche, part polemic, part truth…
Euan Sutherland is Scottish based visual artist
who since the late eighties has been working on various approaches
to creating and exhibiting work which is socially and politically
engaging. His working practice, which uses the creative processes
of collage and photomontage encapsulates various forms, from installation
and sculpture, to printmaking and interactive digital imagery.
His installation work has been seen in a variety of gallery spaces
including Transmission, Glasgow arts Centre and Street level, and
he has undertaken several site-specific projects in alternative
public venues. He is currently a recipient of an Alt-W commission,
which launched in may 2005 (www.fivetwo.net). As a cultural activist
he has been involved with a number of groups including Sound House
Productions, AK Distribution and free university Network, as well
as a number of other campaigning organizations and (counter) cultural
events; in roles raging from designer, typesetter and printer; to
publisher, tutor and organizer.
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