Stories

Titre international/International title
Stories
Date de réalisation/Date of creation
1982
Artiste - Auteur/Artist - Author
Pays/Country
Durée/Duration
00:13:00
Caractéristiques techniques
Description

"In Stories, Adams fuses storytelling and performance in a reverie on reality and fiction. The artist sits alone in near darkness while, in voiceover, he relates a series of seemingly autobiographical anecdotes -- "inside information" marked by irony, loss and black humor. This stark interrogation of self is accompanied by evocative narrative signifiers: a ringing telephone, a ticking clock, a naked light bulb, flickering TV images of a porn movie. The ambiguity of his stories -- memory? dreams? fictions? -- implies a tension between the construction of personal reality and the internalization of the conventions of popular fiction. As Adams writes, "The stories are all true. The character, of course, is fiction." - Electronic Arts Intermix." (Source, cité depuis le site web Rewind)

Autres informations/Additional Informations

Piece written about John Adams and his video works for the Electronic Arts Intermix Catalogue. (Source, pdf, site web Rewind)

Shot in Aidanvison studios, Carlisle, England. (Source, site web Rewind)

Video stills from Stories. (Source, site web Rewind)

Type/Type
Format d'origine/Original format
Documents et ouvrages associés/Publications and Periodicals which reference the work

- Electronic Arts Intermix Catalogue, [s.n.], [s.l.], [s.d.]. (Source, pdf, site web Rewind)

- Stephen Partridge & Sean Cubitt (dir.), REWIND| British Artists' Video in the 1970s & 1980s, John Libbey Publishing, East barnet, Herts, 2012.