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The big picture: A great waste of time
by Conrad Astley30/ 6/2005
WASTED time is the theme behind an exhibition now being shown in
Manchester.
Pass The Time Of Day claims to look at the estrangement of everyday
life through the use of music.
The exhibition has been curated by artist Paul Rooney who chose
newly-commissioned as well as existing works to look at the idea of
wasted time.
His own piece, In The Distance The Dawn Is Breaking, is a
ceiling-mounted video installation, featuring images of shop spaces
at night accompanied by voices describing retail workers'
dreams.
Other pieces include Real Society, by artist Phil Collins - a
series of still images of people undressing in a Spanish hotel
room, along with a soundtrack of melancholy songs.
Thomson and Craighead's Telephony is a wall of mobile phones linked
to a laptop, which creates music from their various ring
tones.
Stephen Sutcliffe's video work Please Please Please Let Me Get What
I Want, shows supermarket shelves being re-stacked by night shift
workers, accompanied by the Smiths song of the same name.
Jem Cohen's film Instrument will also be screened during a special
one-off event. The film follows the Washington DC punk band Fugazi
on tour. However, rather than being treated as a glamorous
"rockumentary", the film looks at boring moments such as band
members eating at service stations.
American punk rock also features heavily in Rodney Graham's exhibit
Aberdeen - slide shows of Kurt Cobain's hometown in Washington
State, accompanied by a Nirvana-inspired soundtrack sung by the
artist. Two films by the Scottish duo Arab Strap will also be shown
as part of the exhibition, while Mark Leckey's Parking Lot is one
of the most experimental pieces - presented in a parked car outside
the gallery.
Pass The Time Of Day is at the Castlefield
Gallery until July 31
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