Sam Hamilton

Performance Piece for Super 8 Film, Historic Greek Ruins, Clothes, and Washing Line a.k.a. "David Attenborough and The History of Dirty Laundry / The Dirty History of Laundry / The Dirty Laundry and History" (2013)

3 min 4 secSingle channel / transferred to Digital Video / Colour / Silent

'David Attenborough Presents: The History of Dirty Laundry / The Dirty History of Laundry / The Dirty Laundry and History' is part of a series of single-take, full super-8-cartridge-length performance works under the umbrella title "David Attenborough Presents".

The series uses David Attenborough as a contextual proxy for critiquing the deeply permeated Western European (particularly British) tendency to ideologically other-ise and subjugate the external world, even when we think we think we're unbiasedly observing it.

As a descendent of, and defacto—albeit reluctant—agent of the British colonial project, the series functions as a space for playfully reckoning with these cultural inheritances and problematising their often hypercritical ideological foundations.

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