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dc.contributor.authorRooney, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2008-10-08T14:19:33Z
dc.date.available2008-10-08T14:19:33Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier.citationIn: Single Shot, Tate Britain, London, UK, 3 November - 10 December 2006
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/38757
dc.description.abstractA single screen 8 minute video projection with sound. In a humorous and moving way the voice of a hotel maid stages a historical and imaginative encounter with a familiar place: a hotel room. A distinctive aspect of the piece is the way that the text for the voice is constructed. Rooney interviewed three hotel maids, but in scripting their words deliberately blurred the line between truth and fiction, by turning the three voices into one monologue. This approach foregrounds the agency of himself as the maker of the work, the presence of any ‘authentic voice’ will always be mediated and manipulated.
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/single-shot
dc.titleDust
dc.typeDigital or visual media
html.description.abstractA single screen 8 minute video projection with sound. In a humorous and moving way the voice of a hotel maid stages a historical and imaginative encounter with a familiar place: a hotel room. A distinctive aspect of the piece is the way that the text for the voice is constructed. Rooney interviewed three hotel maids, but in scripting their words deliberately blurred the line between truth and fiction, by turning the three voices into one monologue. This approach foregrounds the agency of himself as the maker of the work, the presence of any ‘authentic voice’ will always be mediated and manipulated.


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