Allan Hughes is an artist based in Belfast and working out of Orchid Studios. His video installation work explores the production of remediated histories through the deconstruction of post-production processes. Hughes’ works usually proceeds from research into the sites, documents and apparatus of recorded and remediated histories. His installations have touched on many subjects, which have included Jane Fonda’s Radio Hanoi Broadcasts, the decommissioned British Army listening post at Black Mountain in Belfast, the recording of Patty Hearst’s S.L.A. Communiqués and the erased portions of Richard Nixon’s Watergate Tapes. His works examine the precarious position of subjectivity within the constructed narratives of history and the processes of their representation and reception, acknowledging that his subjects are events, people and places that have been fictionalised as much as they have beenreconstructed and recounted. Hughes unpacks the processes of remediation through a deconstruction of production methodologies and establishes a place that privileges listening and the rediscovery of subjective and heterogeneous positions within these narratives.
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E_JaneFonda_325 2010 Coloured pencil on paper 29cm x 20cm Images1 2010 Coloured pencil on paper 29cm x 20cm Redux 2010 Coloured pencil on Fabriano 150 x 150 cm Screen grab from Peer To Peer (partially downloaded Letter To Jane) 2009 67.4% of an AVI file transferred to DVD, DVD player & monitor 46m 44s Screen grab from The Listening Station 2008 Single channel video on monitor, DVD player and bracket 6m 43s Who Loves The Earth (after Robert Smithson) 2010 Graphite pencil on paper 29 x 20cm