HISTORY/REALITY: Malcolm Dickson: The Burning, Matthew Galleries, DJCAD Dundee

Judit Bodor (Curator), Malcolm Dickson (Artist)

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    Abstract

    Performance Venue: Matthew Galleries, DJCAD, Dundee, UK
    Performance Date: 4 April 2024

    The Super 8 film made by Malcolm Dickson in the 1980s was digitised in DJCAD Media Lab. Bodor curated it as part of the preview event of the exhibition HISTORY/REALITY: An Attic Archive Installation, 4 April 2024, Matthew Galleries, DJCAD, University of Dundee.

    Excerpt from the handout:

    "A one-off screening of a film made in Glasgow Green documenting The Burning at 8 pm on 8.8.88 during ‘The Festival of Non-Participation’ co-ordinated by Pete Horobin across Scotland when he was an artist in residence at the Dundee Resource Centre for the Unemployed (D.R.C.U). “The Burning” was described by Horobin in the article ‘A Neoist Story’ in Variant Magazine (Issue 6.) as “an action during which numerous contemporary symbols relating to consumerism, tourism, capitalism, journalism, sexism, politics and art were incinerated in 3 separate fires”. The voiceover recorded for the film is loosely based on the article.

    Malcolm Dickson, Director of Street Level Gallery, Glasgow and Honorary Research Fellow at DJCAD. Malcolm studied on the renowned Electronic Imaging MSc course at DJCAD in the 1980s during which he lived in the DATA Attic. He was an editor of Variant Magazine (1984-1994), a radical arts magazine which published writings by artist-critics. In this exhibition you’ll find reading copies of all articles written for Variant by Pete Horobin and Marshall Anderson which you can also download from the Variant Archive (www.variant.org)."
    Original languageEnglish
    PublisherDuncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
    Sizecurated screening event: Digitised Super 8 film
    Publication statusPublished - 4 Apr 2024

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