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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Oxford
User Group Disco
User Group Disco is a narrative 15-minute video, incorporating live action, motion graphics and sound. It is intended for presentation as a single screen gallery installation, although it is also occasionally screened in theatrical settings. The action features a collection of appropriated objects, including utilitarian domestic and kitsch artefacts. These are accompanied by theoretical and literary texts presented as motion graphics, which reflect upon the value and meaning of the objects as well as the institutions that define them. The piece was produced during an Arts Council England residency at Spike Island, Bristol and funded by Arts Council England, The Elephant Trust and the Royal College of Art Research Development Fund.
The work was premiered in a solo show at Spike Island, Bristol in 2009 and has since been shown at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Pavilion, Leeds, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and Intermediae, Madrid. It was included in The British Art Show 7 – In the Days of the Comet and the artist’s solo show Here at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead for which she was nominated for and won the Turner Prize 2012. User Group Disco has been purchased by the Contemporary Art Society for the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and by the Zabludowicz Collection, London.
