Works&Projects

Synopsis:

For this commission – his first moving image work – William Hunt sings a song of rapport whose communication is thwarted by self-imposed physically demanding conditions.

These conditions not only disrupt Hunt’s ability to perform but overturn the environment and objects around him, and ultimately disturb the viewer’s understanding of the action.

Even as you see me now is a work intended as a video, rather than video documentation of a performance. It uses the language of cinema and painting to give audiences a more considered experience of effort and physical undertaking. Narrative, set up through song, is frustrated by physical restraints, evoking feelings of threat, danger and self-destruction