Alice Corps



"They're getting off, they're not getting on." Installation, 1997.


Through film, photograph, performance, acoustic and text works issues of communications and contact are explored. These various forms of media are used as tools with which to reaccess existing patterns of social interaction.

Much of the work is compiled of a series of non-linear events that can be accessed at various points. Each frame/activity/word acts as a signifier both individually and as a component of time-based constructions.

The viewer is an integral part of the work. In the performances and installations, viewers are both physical and conceptual participators alongside the other elements of the work, which are devised to form and reform continually throughout its' duration.

The structure of the text, or form of visual/acoustic components, allows for a multiplicity of potential connections to be made.

Different voices and forms of narrative structure are employed to displace and simultaneously re-address various conventions and expectations within the work. The lines between documentary and fiction become blurred. Subjective and objective layers interplay to create tension. The surreal within the ordinary reveals unsettling propositions.

Editing technique emphasises the discordant jostling of dialogue between the various components in a work and presents the viewer with deconstructed sentences, statement, information and images for reassembly through the process of decoding.