Sean Dower: Artworks and information
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Bluebell wood. 1988 A static camera records a section of woodland. After a time, a previously unnoticed figure leaps off a high branch and hits the ground. Dower grew up near these woods. |
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Performance experiments, Basle 1991 Video of 2 kinetic, sound works made in Basle Switzerland, whilst on tour with the Bow Gamelan Ensemble. 1) Work for aluminium bowl, motor and bottle tops. |
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| Bob's bowl & bike |
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Hot Music. 1993 Filmed in a single take, the artist climbs onto a white plinth and |
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Zou Zou's Mime. 1993 - 2006 |
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| Zou Zou | Zou Zou's Mime Reconstructed 1993
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An Interview with professor Bruce McLean regarding a spate of thefts and vandalism at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten’ 1994. VHS transfer to DVD with sound. 4 mins. In this short film Dower interviews Bruce McLean about an increasingly absurd catalogue of incidents.The deadpan interviewer elicits a series of increasingly comical reactions from McLean. Laughter often has an infectious effect and this video similarly affects the viewer with its contagion. |
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BMW 325i. 1994 The backdrop is London’s Bank of England and the video appears to be slowed-down CCTV footage. Made shortly after the announcement of the IRA ceasefire in 1994, this work was intended to mark the passing of a certain era of international terrorism. The threat of terrorism had hung over Britain and Northern Ireland for the previous 25 years, making this kind of incident an ever present possiblilty. |
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Clothes Recycling Video. 1996 The artist climbs into a series of clothes recycling containers on the streets of South London. Life on the outside continues and several minutes later the artist emerges transformed, wearing a new set of clothes found inside. Through the act of recycling, a subtle displacement of identity has taken place. |
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Confidence Improvement Exercise. 1996 Filmed on London Bridge, a pathetic shrouded figure with a box over it's head slowly emerges from the flow of pedestrians. The busy commuters mostly avoid dealing with this irrational incursion into their habitual existence. With seeming trepidation, the figure makes it accross the bridge and out of frame.
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3 Frame Subliminal. 1997 First distributed on Video at the Factual Nonsense 'Live Stock Market' in Hoxton, London. The DVD contains a subliminal image, which appears at random every 20 to 40 seconds on an otherwise black screen. |
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| 3 Frame subliminal | Sean sells subliminals |
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No Room in Hell (Absent Qualia). Solo exhibition, Matt's Gallery, London. No Room in Hell follows the descent of a group of Zombies on Matt's Gallery in east London. Shot in 3D and viewable with special glasses, the work engages the viewer in notions of physical cinema. Apart from the engagement in spectacle, the work explores Zombie consciousness in history and culture. |
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Dick Donkeys Dawn. 1997 - 1999 |
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Audiopathology. W139 Gallery, Amsterdam 2001 |
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‘Screen Saver’ 1996 - 2001. DVD with sound, 5 min. 35mm photographs taken in 1996 of a live concert by the ‘Krishna Core’ band Shelter were output to DVD from a screensaver program. The still images of audience paroxysms morph with images of the stage equipment and glide across the screen in a cross-fading sequence. The band is absent from the work, the electronic soundtrack is by Sonofapup (AKA Dower). |
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Drug Den. 2001 & 2005 |
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Break it Down - A performance 2006. |
Break it Down |
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Automaton. 2006 |
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| Automaton | Automaton | ||
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