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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Goldsmiths' College
Belief
Belief, made in collaboration with Jon Thomson, is the final documentary artwork in the 'Flat Earth Trilogy' commissioned through nomination for a Vital Spark award – the premier award scheme for visual artists’ work run by Creative Scotland (£40,000). Belief is a documentary artwork made from information found online. It considers new models of documentary making, specifically by asking what potential our new globally accessible databases and social media repositories have as documentary archives. It also comprises a software element that draws a relationship between the physical world and the virtual world of the Internet, using a compass as its visual metaphor.
The first two works in the trilogy are Flat Earth (2007) commissioned by Channel 4 and Animate TV (£16,000) and A short film about War (2009/2010) commissioned by Alt-w/NewMedia Scotland (£4000).
Belief was premiered at InSpace Gallery, Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh Film Festival 2012 and exhibited at Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye, in April 2013. Belief was also selected to be part of the Jarman Award tour 2012 (Film London & FLAMIN) for which we were shortlisted artists. This tour went to FACT, Liverpool; Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; The Northern Charter, Newcastle; Nottingham Contemporary; Watershed, Bristol; Duke of York cinema, Brighton; and Whitechapel Gallery, London.
Belief is also distributed internationally by Lux, Carroll / Fletcher gallery and Animate Projects, where a contextual essay by Morgan Quaintance is available for download.
