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| Matthew Noel-Tod
COMPLETE
PSYCHO
(AKA: TOTAL FUCKING PSYCHO)
Matthew Noel-Tod is a video artist working in Norwich and London.
He has shown his work internationally, including recent shows and
screenings at Unit B Gallery, Chicago; Detroit Art Space, Detroit;
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz; S1 Artspace, Sheffield and Transmission
Gallery, Glasgow. He is currently making a video adaptaion of Jean-Paul
Sartre’s ‘Nausea’ for Film London, due for completion
late 2004.
Matthew Noel-Tod’s work explores various histories available
through film, video, art, music and literature and creates dialogues
between these histories while creating new associations and paths
for analysis and a new appreciation. The work also often questions
the accepted authenticity of an artwork or non-artwork.
His most recent video is ‘Atomic’ (2003), a shot-for-shot
remake of the pop video for the Blondie song ‘Atomic’
which is cut to a contemporary score for FW Murnau’s 1922
vampire classic ‘Nosferatu’.
‘Complete Psycho (aka: Total Fucking Psycho)’ on 23rd
March will be a live deconstruction of Alfred Hitchcock’s
horror film ‘Psycho’ (1960) and Gus Van Sant’s
much criticised contemporary remake ‘Psycho’ (1998).
By repetition and juxtaposition of shots from both versions on multiple
screens, ‘Complete Psycho’ will offer the viewer a nightmarish
trip into our cultural obsession with ‘an original work of
art’. The performance will illuminate the real genius in Van
Sant’s film: that only through the cultural update of the
remake, or ‘cover-version’, can he show us the most
accurate portrayal of our empty and passionless society.
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here for archived performance
Matthew
Noel-Tod’s performance is supported by Arts Council England.
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