Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art

#Nostalgia

Nostalgia - CCA artist in front of large screen delivering a spoken performance
Nostalgia, 2014
Centre for Contemporary Art
Photograph: Lesley Cunningham
Nostalgia - CCA, artist in front of a large screen delivering a spoken performance
Nostalgia, 2014
Centre for Contemporary Art
Photograph: Lesley Cunningham

#Nostalgia

#nostalgia was a performance that lifts its structure from Hollis Frampton's seminal film (nostalgia) (19710, in which selected photographs from Frampton's archive burn on a hotplate one by one, while a voiceover delivers texts about the images long before they are seen, challenging the viewer's powers of memory.

For this new performance, the artists were asked to write a personal monologue in response to an original stock image - with the future in mind, they will fill empty images with personal subjectivities. These monologues were then performed live in front of the image, as though the speakers were singing karaoke.