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| Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard |
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Collaborative duo Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (b. Manchester 1973-Newcastle 1972) uses a variety of media, from video to live performance, to explore our relationship to pop culture, and more broadly cultural symbols. In the performance A Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (1998), they reproduced meticulously the David Bowie's legendary 'farewell' performance as Ziggy Stardust, 25 years after the event. Their interest for the multi-layered consequences of re-enacting an event also looked at visual art. In the 2005 video Walking with they Acconci, they collaborate with the MC Plan B, to re-enact a 1973 Acconci’s performance. More than a re-staging of the piece, Walking with Acconci was an appropriation of it, a new reading acknowledging the very different cultural realities of the two works. Their last piece, Silent Sound (2006) investigates subliminal messages. For the Liverpool Biennial 2006, they repeated a sentence for a whole hour-long performance, from a soundproof booth on stage. An orchestra was performing a piece while the sentence was transmitted subliminally to the audience's subconscious.
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard have been exhibiting internationally: Forsyth & Pollard Jerwood Space, London 2006; Switch on the Power! MARCO Spain 2006; Metropolis Rise: New Art from London China, 2006; Music For People DCA, Scotland 2006; Surfing The Surface Paolo Bonzano, Rome 2006; Change My Life Horsebridge, Whitstable 2006; Anyone else isn’t you KIAD, Maidstone 2005; Forsyth & Pollard Kate MacGarry, London 2005; Anyone else isn’t you The Hospital, London 2005; Everybody else is wrong Pavilion, Montreal 2004; Video London Espai Ubú, Barcelona 2005; Rhythm-A-Ning Context Gallery, Derry 2005. Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard have their own very informative website www.iainandjane.com and are represented by Kate MacGarry, London. |
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