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Work Type:video
Date of work:1998
Materials:medium: video

Measurements:duration: 17 min

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:cultural identity, schizophrenia, society, allegory
Technique:video
Description:
In Voices from Two Hemispheres, David Harding uses a magical film narrative to convey the inherent tension that exists between a schizophrenic individual, in his relation to the contemporary world and perhaps, more specifically to cultural identity. It is ambitious and fulsome. The narrative leads from claustrophobic study-room through cool and heightened fields of colour, flushes of external cultural reference and ends up with flourish of symbolism at the top of a mountain.
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Source:From a series of conversations held at different times between Keith Tyson, Sacha Craddock and Simon Morrissey and between Susan Hiller, Sacha Craddock and Des Lawrence. “New Contemporaries 99”, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, 1999.
Date of source:1999