'And I', Marcia Farquhar and Reynir Hutber, eight hour single channel video, 2015

 

And I

2015

Single channel video, 8:00:00:00
Recorded at Matt's Gallery, 2015.

A collaboration between Marcia Farquhar and Reynir Hutber. 

Photograph by Jem Finer taken at Matt's Gallery 2015. 

'And I' was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

‘And I’ is a collaboration between artist and experimental filmmaker, Reynir Hutber, and many-storied artist and notorious orator, Marcia Farquhar. The film is a single-channel eight-hour video of Farquhar speaking without edits of sustained pauses. Her monologue, occasionally interrupted or prompted by Hutber, is improvised and entirely unrehearsed. The work is an act of endurance for the performers and, potentially, the audience who are free to leave and enter the gallery at will. The video, which is the length of a traditional working day raises the notion of thinking, speaking and remembering as forms of unacknowledged labour. ‘And I’ runs for the full period of a galleries’ opening hours and can be played only once in any one location – despite being a document it has the temporary quality of a performance.

The work is based on an original idea by Hutber and draws on the long-durational live works of Farquhar. The work was produced in partnership with the Live Art Development Agency and was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England www.artscouncil.org.uk.  ‘And I’ is currently touring the UK.