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Handycam gifts, co-curated with Grace Jackson
an installation with Mark Buckeridge
October ‘22
Handycam Gifts is a new moving image work that brings together conversations with collaborators and friends, offering personal anecdotes and honest reflections on artistic labour. The work assembles footage from a handycam camcorder gifted to Mark by a friend, and brought on journeys across Belfast, London, Amsterdam, Dublin and Kaunas.
The importance of friendship and collective working is core to Handycam Gifts, as we consider what motivates us and the relationships that sustain us. Throughout the video, details of everyday life and spaces are layered amongst glimpses of artistic craft and internet browsing. Between journeys by train and car, we observe Rory Mullen sewing Mark a costume for a recent performance, and Katie Watchorn welding a sculpture for the outfit to hang from. Interludes in nature and footage of friends combine with research materials and curious scrolling, whilst dialogue shifts from a friend’s anecdote on plaid shirt collecting and relationships to artmaking.
The video features Rory Mullen, Katie Watchorn, Cliodhna Timoney, Ona Juciūtė and Niall McCallum. Handycam Gifts will be accompanied by a text written by curators Cecelia Graham and Grace Jackson.
Supported by Elephant Trust and National Lottery Fund NI.
Images by Simon Mills