Julia Bradshaw
About this original series
A selection of my artist videos to share. Some performance, some a mere taster of an installation. More information about my artworks can be found on www.juliabradshaw.com
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# Episodes
5 episodes -
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Episodes of Julia Bradshaw
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I am English, I am English
The performers have a clipped English accent. As they speak, the conversation becomes equally combative and ridiculous as each person mimics the other. I consider myself a ‘benign’ foreigner and I often reflect on this benign-ness when I consider the trials of some immigrant groups in the United States. The project may be ridiculous, but I am trying to say something quite serious.
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Release date
Mar 6, 2010
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Runtime
01:30
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Blow - A Conversation
A rather ridiculous visualisation of missed communication, disputes, failed advances, diametric viewpoints and avoidance and absence in a relationship.
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Release date
Aug 19, 2009
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Runtime
06:01
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fun_random_sounds
This project is a response to my skeptical view of marketing language, particularly those marketers who appeal to the almost universal need to be creative by naming a software tool XYZ Creative or naming a mundane feature to imply excitment. The impetus: a group of free sound effects in Microsoft’s Creative Fun Pack was titled ‘fun_random_sounds’. However, when listening to the sounds, I realized that the sounds were neither ‘fun’ nor particularly ‘random’. For example, the sound of a door clo...
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Release date
Mar 16, 2008
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Runtime
04:00
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Teaching Video Art as a Second Language
This video is in the form of an educational video. The performer, wearing an apron and talking directly to the camera, references the direct camera work and direct demonstration approach of Martha Rosler?s ?Semiotics of the Kitchen? (thus an opportunity to learn an aspect of video art is embedded in this video). The video is firmly tongue-in-cheek. A parody.
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Release date
Mar 16, 2008
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Runtime
02:31
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Can Art be Humble?
With a respectful nod to the Maintenance Art of Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Zhan Wang's Ruin Cleaning Project, 1994, in this satirical video project the 'artist' contemplates whether art (or artists) can be humble given this current climate of art as a consumer product. This project critiques the system of art production and dissemination. In the video the narrator reflects on whether an artist who works in a more humble approach in remote places can remain humble when there is a need to work w...
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Release date
Mar 4, 2008
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Runtime
06:30
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