HISTORY/REALITY: Roddy Hunter: "RE-RECORDING", Solo Performance, DJCAD, Dundee

Judit Bodor (Curator), Roddy Hunter (Artist)

    Research output: Non-textual formPerformance

    Abstract

    Performance Venue: Matthew Gallery South, DJCAD, Dundee, UK
    Performance Date: 3 April 2024 - 4 April 2024

    Curated by Bodor 'R E - R E C O R D I N G' by Roddy Hunter was a dual monitor video work with live performance investigating Pete Horobin's 'Digestive Biscuit Action' (1986) work, in which he recorded himself on video in the attic flat of 27 Union Street, Dundee, between 12:30-2:22 pm on 29 March 1986 attempting to eat an entire pack of digestive biscuits, dedicating each one to a person who had corresponded with him so far that year. Hunter's response work is a meditation on personal and cultural history and an observation of the economy and politics of everyday reality. Hunter replayed the 1986 footage video on a vintage CRT monitor while recording himself preparing and repeating the attempt to eat a packet of digestive biscuits on the MiniDV vintage digital video format while silently dedicating each one to a person of significance in his own life. The video output of the performance provided a basis for a new split-screen video work incorporating footage of Haining's 1986 performance with Hunter's in 2024, to be exhibited in later online and offline exhibitions and archives on the web-platform developed as key output for the research network project.

    RODDY HUNTER (1970, Glasgow) is an artist, educator, writer and curator, working mainly in performance, conceptual and new media art.

    The performance and dual monitor installation happened on 4th April from 5 -7 pm as part of a performance and public engagement event of HISTORY/REALITY: An Attic Archive Installation (3-4 April 2024, Matthew Galleries South, DJCAD, University of Dundee). The event was curated to explore the archive's relevancy to contemporary audiences through new artworks made by artists from different generations and different knowledge of the Attic Archive.

    The exhibition and event coincided with the first international research network meeting of Curating The Digital Attic Archive: A Case Study For Open-Source Approaches To Artists’ Archive project (led by Bodor as PI and Hunter as Co-I) hosted in Scotland (DJCAD/University of Dundee Archives and National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh).

    The work was recorded on photographs and film and will be made accessible as a two-screen video piece on the research project's web platform as Output in 2025.



    Original languageEnglish
    PublisherDuncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
    Media of outputOther
    SizeDual monitor video with live performance
    Publication statusPublished - 2024

    Keywords

    • artist archives
    • performance art
    • Attic Archive
    • Roddy Hunter

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