We're currently in the process of planning an exhibition in Brighton with some students from Goldsmiths and Slade. Performance has always been something that interests us greatly but we've, personally, never actually carried one out in a gallery scenario so we decided that this time we'd give it a go. Home movies, especially our own, have been an idea which we've been thinking about too and so combining them both seems only logical. So we considered staging a discussion where we're esteemed film critics and we're over evaluating these films (the camera angles, the lighting etc). We would be sat around a table in a semi-formal scenario with the screen being projected on to the wall behind us so that the audience could see whatever film we were discussing. This sort of idea comes from things which we feel are over-analysed such a football strategies on Match of the Day. Another thought was to set up a situation which all young people know, sitting around sharing the latest funny/weird/wonderful videos they've found online. We would plant our own films into Youtube and then search for them whilst having a discussion about how they were similar to other aspects of popular culture. The set-up for this would be more casual; maybe a bed or a sofa might be more appropriate. This idea brings the personal (our home movies) into the universal (the Internet), it also allows for a relatable aspect with regards to the younger audience whilst also recreating the alienation the has been voiced by older generations with reference to these activities. It also carries a 'copy-and-paste' notion that can create an immersive event when experienced live.
We have now both returned to our respective homes (outside of London) and therefore have returned to this bizarre state where we're making work together but whilst we're apart. Something that is challenging but in turn can mean that development can occur without disruption from each of us and so when we come to discuss things we will have more thorough ideas with respect to whatever we happen to be working on at the time.