Matthew
Noel-Tod
04 October until 15 November
An exhibition of new work
by Matthew Noel-Tod, produced during his recent Bristol Mean Time
Residency, will open at Picture This' Atelier space at Spike Island
in Bristol.
Noel-Tod's new film, Blind Carbon Copy, is based on an
evocative script collaged from the artist's personal email correspondence.
The emails are interpreted via a combination of spoken, physical
and musical performances, taking its central focus from the language
and emotions of the correspondence. The title of the film refers
to the process of sending a blind copy of an email or letter to
a hidden third-person recipient.
Noel-Tod's film rethinks 1970s examples of artists' performance
addressing technology and disembodiment. In Blind Carbon Copy
there is an attempt to reverse the cold, impersonal state of technological
communication through the primacy of human speech and performance.
Words and phrases become incongruous and weighty as they are lifted
from their natural context and reinterpreted both by actors and
by the audience.
The complex shoot for Blind Carbon Copy took place at Picture
This' Atelier in Bristol - the same space in which it was later
exhibited - and features a cast of actors, life models, children,
and with musicians Corey Orbison and Katapulto. The dramatic imagery
in the film uses light from car headlights, lasers and smoke machines.
Blind Carbon Copy was also screened at the ICA in October as part
of
Matthew Noel-Tod was resident in Bristol from July to October 2008
as the recipient of the and Picture
This 2008 Bristol Mean Time* residency.
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* Until the dawn of the railways local time for the people of Bristol
was 10 minutes faster than Greenwich Mean Time, based on the city’s
latitudinal position relative to the Greenwich Meridian Line in
London.
To this day the clock over the old Corn Exchange in Bristol has
two minute hands. The black minute hand shows Greenwich Mean Time
while the red minute hand shows Bristol time.
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