Dancing in Peckham, film still.
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Title |
Dancing in Peckham, film still. |
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Creator |
Wearing, Gillian (English photographer and video artist, born 1963) |
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Date |
1994 |
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Cultural Context |
British
English
European |
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Subject |
Performance art
Film stills
Women
Artists
Boys
Teenagers
Dancers
Dance
Recreation
Locomotion
Human locomotion
Trousers
Shirts
T-shirts
Shoes
Footwear
Athletic shoes
Sunglasses
Shopping centers
Windows
Suburban life |
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Description |
Videotape; 25 minutes, color, silent; "The idea that art can provide access to an artist's inner being is amusingly, and pointedly, repudiated here. Wearing is completely immersed in her own world. In the video, no soundtrack accompanies her dancing. She has talked about her interest in fathoming people's inner motivations as being stimulated by a series of documentaries produced in 1964-77 for Britain's BBC/Granada television. Initially entitled Seven Up, they tracked the lives of a diverse group of people at regular intervals from the age of seven." (Caption, p.240); "Working in London, the English artist Gillian Wearing explored the disparities between people's interior and exterior lives in works such as the 25-minute Dancing in Peckham (1994), where she presented herself dancing self-absorbedly to imaginary music in a shopping center." (Excerpt, p.240) |
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People Pictured |
Wearing, Gillian, 1963- |
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Location Depicted |
Peckham (London, England)
London (England)
England
Great Britain
United Kingdom |
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Technique |
Filmmaking |
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Work Type |
Performance art
Body art
Video art
Film stills |
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Repository |
Southampton City Art Gallery and Museums (Southampton, England, United Kingdom) |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.[241], fig.127) |
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Rights |
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Government Art Collection, London/Southampton City Art Gallery. Courtesy Maureen Paley Interim Art. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 827-53.jpg |
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Rating |
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