Title
November eleven: work in progress
1981
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Details
- Date
- 1981
- Media category
- Time-based art
- Materials used
- analog tape (VHS) shown as single channel digital video, colour, sound
- Dimensions
- duration: 00:19:00 min
- Credit
- Purchased 1988
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 353.1988
- Copyright
- © Peter Kennedy and John Hughes/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Peter Kennedy
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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John Hughes
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About
'November eleven: work in progress' 1981
1 inch video, 19 minutes
John Hughes with Peter Kennedy
Cast: Carolyn Howard, Paul Davies‘November eleven: work in progress’ is the moving image component of an installation work designed by Peter Kennedy1, (installation two in a series of three) using a format identical with the earlier installation and again featuring a painted banner (‘November eleven – An Australian history’, oil on canvas 274 x 305 cm, 1980-1) referencing the tradition of trade union banners, their street performance, and presented here in the service of a critical ‘history painting’.
The video develops themes and strategies from the earlier video, ‘November eleven’ (1979), deploying advertising, newsreel footage, children’s books as modes of found ‘performance’ in an ironic (‘blue screen’) play of ‘history’ and myth working around the dual constellations: 1890/1975 and 1968/1981.
1. Art Gallery of NSW (1981), ‘Australian Perspecta: a biennial survey of contemporary Australian art’ (exhibition catalogue)
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
See you at the barricades, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 May 2015–29 Nov 2015
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Bernice Murphy, Australian Perspecta 1981, Sydney, 1981, 102-103, 102 illus.. cat. no. 82
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Macushla Robinson, See you at the barricades, 'An introduction', pg.2-10, Sydney, 2015, 7, 20 (colour illus.), 46.
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