<div dir="ltr">- Who is this woman addressing? Who does she think her audience is? <div><div><br></div><div>- Is this scripted? Acted? Staged? Or is she a 'real' subject...I assume these questions are intentionally left hazy. She certainly seems, or is made to seem, as if she has a good degree of control over the filming process (saying 'cut' at the end of scenes etc.)</div><div><br></div><div>- She says: "I want to apologise if you think I'm exploiting you to make my point, but I really need to do this and I couldn't do it without you" – The plot grows thicker! Smashing exploration/subversion/confusion of the artist-subject relationship<br><div><div><br></div><div>- It makes me think of an extremely renegade You Tube how-to video...now <i>that's</i> an influencer</div><div><br></div><div>- Artist-wise, this definitely has a whiff of Marcus Coates about it</div><div><br></div><div>- Interrogating/toying with/deconstructing the idealised American wilderness</div><div><br></div><div>- <i>The Country and The City</i> by everyone's favourite Welsh cultural theori<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">st, Raymond Williams, has definite resonance here...<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>“The contrast of the country and city is one of the major forms in which we become conscious of a central part of our experience and of the crises of our society”</span> <br></font><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-- <br></font><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Journalist and Critical Writer</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u style=""><a href="http://www.helenahaimes.co.uk" target="_blank">www.helenahaimes.co.uk</a></u><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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