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Hello Joe
by GRAHAM KELLY
2017, 19”
Presented at Lo schermo dell’arte 2021 in occasion of the exhibition Directing the Real: Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s
The film is part of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images – 6th edition
Courtesy of the artist
Hello Joe was secretly produced overnight in a series of rented Airbnb accommodations. It is constructed entirely from elements found and captured within a number of private homes that were accessed through the website. Furnishings, ornaments and extracts from various personal book, CD and DVD collections act as a unitary workable archive. Domestic spaces are merged together in this portrait of an emerging form of corporate space within the declining value of privacy.
Graham Kelly works with the notion that the interface between a digital moving image and its viewer is not constrained to the surface of the screen or the eye. Instead, due to the near omnipresence of networked cameras and video displays in constructed environments, he considers it as a perpetual process that forms hybridized viewers/subjects caught between perceived actual and digital territories. Previous exhibitions, screenings and lectures include:Transmission Gallery (Glasgow), Intermedia (Glasgow), Generator Projects (Dundee), Recontres Internationales (Paris, Berlin), Kino der Kunst (Munich), TENT (Rotterdam), EYE Film Museum (Amsterdam) and the 2016 Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2009 with a Masters in Research and with a Masters in Fine Art from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2014 and was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht in 2015 and 2016.