Recent work: FrenchMottershead is an artist collaborative who have presented their interactive work at Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and the Institute of Contemporary Art to critical and public acclaim. They have created a new work that will have a public presentation during Situation Leeds in May 2007. The Post Echo is a free tabloid newspaper created, published and circulated by the artists during the two-week festival. The paper will be a photographic journal featuring the public of Leeds embodying people in situations previously reported in the Yorkshire Evening Post. Starting on the city centre streets with a daily invite from the artists to discuss yesterday’s news stories, the public choose to personify or echo - in their own way - the unnamed person/s and their reported circumstance for camera. Each resulting photo and chosen text is added to a weeklong record of events that is published as The Post Echo. Launched and circulated in the second week, the newspaper will be distributed to all participants and the wider public through festival venues, newsstands and other outlets. “The best of FM’s work empowers and confuses its audiences in equal measure. The social is dissected and discovered to be just a set of arbitrary practices, techniques of the body adopted because they were ‘convenient’ quickly become conventional with repetitive use. For once, it is art that actually achieves the popular ideal of raising your awareness of everyday life.“
Mark Wilsher, Art Monthly, Dec/Jan 06/07 |
