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Several Interruptions, which collages together online
videos in which people are seen holding their breath
underwater, is both interruption (as its name suggests)
as well as documentary, in which the seemingly mundane
and numerous has been made back into something unique
and original.
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Thomson & Craighead
have personally chosen, from some 61,000 possible files
on YouTube, videos which they have edited together into
brief vignettes which interrupt each other sequentially
(in time) and laterally (on-screen).
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Through the artists’ mediation,
these amateur videos have been transformed into professional
pocket- sized triptychs which make reference to the large-scale,
three-screen projection installations of internationally-known
video artists. Their chosen formal constraints (the sound-editing
or the way the videos have been scraped from YouTube into
another window) cleverly allow the viewer to lose themselves
in the footage and engage in plenty of wide- ranging, open-ended
symbolism brought out through the found imagery, from baptism
to water boarding -Sarah Cook 2009
Several Interruptions was made for the Arts
Council of England for the relaunch of their website in
2009
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