Drawn and Quartered

2010

art video

Digital video, stereo sound, 3 minutes

Drawn and Quartered explores nationalism, clanship, treason and attendant violence through motifs of flag-waving and national dress. A naked, fully painted tartan figure attempts to blend with a skewed-perspective tartan background (the artist’s own ‘clan’), in which a poem is graven. Bound hand and foot, the figure attempts a traditional war dance.

The action takes place within a skewed–perspective 2.5m square tartan swatch.

Lindsay Webb created a highly trippy anamorphic painting installation which transformed the warehouse site into a two–dimensional pictorial space whose full effect is visible only from the point of view of the camera. The many–coloured lines integral to the artist's clan heritage tartan were traced in layers onto a corner of the building comprising two walls and floor.

The artist/performer was then body-painted as camouflaged into the tartan background. Also involved were bagpipes, a baby and a chameleon.

Direction and text: Elena Knox
Light and camera: Paul J Warren
Set and sound: Lindsay Webb
Edit and colour: Elena Knox
Performance: Elena Knox, Joakim Rivard-Hyde
Makeup: Inkarnation
Hair and nails: Elena Knox
Rope work: Lian Loke
Stills: James Fisher
Production: Lull Studio

Screenings/Exhibitions

://self~imaging, ArteVideoKoeln, CologneOFF at CeC, India 2016
Wake UP!, The New Museum of Networked Art, 2016
Film Cunst, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, 2014
Fleshed Out, Ariel Booksellers, Sydney 2011