Film

The correlation between performance, document and the experience of the individual within a group are enduring concerns within Gordon Schmidt’s practice. For his exhibition at Tramway, Schmidt is creating a synced video and sound installation using the 1964 BBC Wednesday Play adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s huis clos as source material.

How do we understand a situation: read about it, watch something? What if we just repeat it/ ourselves verbatim: embody it?  Or: 3 days of copying and simulacra, replication, repetition, re-inscription and reanimation…in performed installations or film-lectures, learning plays or readings.