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Under The Same Sky

Found Footage is a new and ongoing body of work which further develops my research into the relationship between the still and the moving image, exploring the moving still from a photographic perspective. The first iteration of Found Footage, ‘Found Footage: Bangkok’, was developed during my one month residency on an ASEM-DUO fellowship to Bangkok University, Thailand in June/July 2010 and exhibited in the two-person exhibition 'Under The Same Sky', Susan Collins and Tuksina Pipitkul, at Bangkok University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand in July/August 2010 (alongside prints from my Seascape series). For ‘Found Footage: Bangkok’ I photographed over 10,000 images in the form of sequences or ‘found’ animations in a search for a visual formalism or composition in everyday scenes, finding locations and objects that are naturally, inherently animated. This produced a number of works including: a wall mounted installation of 101 small photographic prints; a triptych of larger format prints and a 3 minute moving image animation. 'Found Footage: Bangkok' was discussed in my guest lecture Framing the Digital: Materialising New Media, at Bangkok University in July 2010 and reviewed in the Bangkok Post and the Bangkok Art Map. A second iteration, ‘Found Footage: Whitechapel’ which used the same technique and approach but this time exploring the Whitechapel area of London was exhibited in October/November 2011 at IDEA Store Whitechapel with support from Film and Video Umbrella and the Whitechapel Gallery.