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Fabricata Illuminata

September 21, 2013 by nickcopefilm

In 1985, following View From Hear and my Scratch video work, I began to concentrate predominantly on work as part of performance art group Fabricata Illuminata. Fabricata Illuminata came about originally as a collaboration between Martin King and Anthony Bennett to produce a sound piece, Fabricata, as introduction to the tape/slide presentation ‘Of Them that Slept’ by artist Roberta Graham and writer Ken Hollings. The work was presented at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London, as part of ‘Violent Silence – Acts […]

Categories: 1980s, Fabricata Illuminata • Tags: Fabricata Illuminata, performance art

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…Super 8

September 18, 2013 by nickcopefilm

“Super 8 became to film what the famous three chords of punk were to music” – Schmitz, M. ‘The Medium was the Message’ in Berlin Super 80, booklet accompanying the DVD ‘Berlin Super 80: Music and Film Underground West Berlin 1978-1984.'(2005) Berlin: Monitorpop. Developed in the 1960s as a home movie making format, easily accessible to the amateur filmmaker, facilitating an ease of use through the pre-packaging of film into small 3 minute roll cartridges that can be placed quickly and easily […]

Categories: 1980s, 391, Sheffield, Scratch and..., Super 8 • Tags: home movies, Sheffield, super 8

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Sheffield, Scratch and Super 8…

September 17, 2013 by nickcopefilm

“Sheffield’s punk scene was visible and varied, but interestingly many were quick to adopt more electronic modes of expression, early manifestations of bands such as the Human League and Clockdva articulating their nonconformity through modernist forms. With a drum machine, sequencer or super-8 projector, frequently cheaper or more available than a guitar amp or drum kit, access and affordability gave modernity an ironic appeal… The political and economic reality nevertheless shaped social interaction and expression… The dismantling of the steel […]

Categories: 1980s, Scratch Video, Sheffield, Scratch and... • Tags: Scratch, scratch video, Sheffield, super 8

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Scratch video

September 17, 2013 by nickcopefilm

Shortly after the 1981 riots in Brixton, South London, founders of the legendary London based punk rock venue the Roxy Club, Andrew Czezowski and Susan Carrington opened their new club, The Fridge, located in a small club above the Iceland frozen food store in Brixton Road, “with a radical décor that included beat-up fridges, a pyramid of broken TVs showing John Maybury videos and (fake) dead cats hanging from its ceiling.”[1] The installation of 25 old television sets stacked up […]

Categories: 1980s, 391, Scratch Video, Sheffield, Scratch and... • Tags: Andy Lipman, Scratch, scratch video, video art

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391

September 15, 2013 by nickcopefilm

In 1982 I produced the first of two A5 photocopied magazines with printed card covers under the title 391 intended to be an alternative ‘to the run of the mill bands, records, gigs type fanzine’. Taking its name from Francis Picabia’s original Dadaist magazine ‘391 was a literary magazine against everyone and everything’ The first ten page 391 magazine would feature quotations from Tristan Tzara, Albert Camus, Genesis P-Orridge’s sleevenotes to ClockDVA’s album ‘Thirst’, and a quote from the nineteenth […]

Categories: 1980s, 391, 391: View From Hear, Sheffield, Scratch and..., Super 8 • Tags: 391, post-punk, Sheffield, super 8

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Metamorphosis

September 13, 2013 by nickcopefilm

My audiovisual practice began during my time as a member of music group Metamorphosis in the early 1980s, informed and influenced by and engaged in the post-punk/industrial music scene and based in Nottingham and Sheffield, England. A hybrid moving image practice combining Super 8 film, off-air video recordings, 35mm slides and original sound and music recordings was engaged in both as accompaniment to live music performances; expanded cinematic, multimedia, live audio-visual performances in their own right. As a 16 year-old […]

Categories: 1980s, 391, Metamorphosis • Tags: Metamorphosis, post-punk

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