https://stevenpaige.com Steven Paige Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:11:36 +0000 https://stevenpaige.com en https://stevenpaige.com/Steven-Paige Sun, 01 Mar 2020 22:15:44 +0000 Steven Paige https://stevenpaige.com/Steven-Paige Steven Paige&nbsp; https://stevenpaige.com/Queery-the-Archive Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:24:58 +0000 Steven Paige https://stevenpaige.com/Queery-the-Archive Que(e)ry the Archive Single channel video 10mins2019Part reminiscence, part fantastical, Que(e)ry the Archive is made up of segments of archival film – bodies being instructed in baseball, volleyball, swimming and training in the US Marines. A voice over reads from the catalogue entries from the MacDonald Collection, Library of Congress, that the segments are drawn from, a script interspersed with reminiscences from the artist’s childhood in the west coast of the USA and the central Pacific.Engaging with the physical collections, the aged and fading films, the archival encounters are mediated through performing ‘algorithmic’ returns, the ‘query’ rendered through Paige’s subjective and desireful searching. https://stevenpaige.com/Remote-Viewing Sun, 01 Mar 2020 23:07:54 +0000 Steven Paige https://stevenpaige.com/Remote-Viewing Remote Viewing Single Channel Video&nbsp;2019 Created initially from video segments drawn from the Prelinger Archive, the work is intercut with the artist response to the originating films framed through the search terms encompasing ‘learning’ ‘swimming’ ‘baseball’ and ‘marine’. In meditating on the film’s archival qualities, there is an irony in the actions of copying and parodying the moving bodies from the originating clips, a making strange through forced or earnest relations to the archival finds. &nbsp;It begs the question of the precariousness of engaging archival histories, and the possible associations ultimately anchored in the subjective gaze of both artiat and viewer. &nbsp; https://stevenpaige.com/Read-Through Wed, 04 Mar 2020 23:24:16 +0000 Steven Paige https://stevenpaige.com/Read-Through Read Through Single Channel Video 2019 Read Through is made up of four motion picture scripts read back to two cameras, selected from the returns of online searches using the keywords of film, learning, education, sport – with the term ‘famous scene’ added. &nbsp;The four selected scenes were taken from 9 to 5 (1980), Karate Kid (1984), Working Girl (1988) and Field of Dreams (1989). &nbsp;&nbsp; A tension arises from the originating film scenes haunting a simplified and sincerely read version. The scripted scenes were tenaciously repeated until a resolute performed version was created.&nbsp; https://stevenpaige.com/Similar-Items-based-on-metadata Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:47:57 +0000 Steven Paige https://stevenpaige.com/Similar-Items-based-on-metadata Similar Items&nbsp;(based on metadata) Single channel video 2016 Similar Items (based on metadata) is made as a responses to online moving image searches in regard to 'American Idealism', where the initial search came up with an 1986 PBS TV show The Open Mind. A historian, James MacGregor Burns, discusses 1980's idealism in the US, and what this mean for the future. Taking this further, the online searching for other important cultural 'speeches' outside of mainstream politics returned scenes in seminal US television and film. The script for these scenes were run through a text to speech function on a computer as a single monologue, subtitled with selected key sentences or phrases from the script. The low resolution of the video matches the original found footage. https://stevenpaige.com/Antinous-Acrobats Mon, 16 Mar 2020 08:24:26 +0000 Steven Paige https://stevenpaige.com/Antinous-Acrobats VINVS FOGGINI / SCVLPSIT FLO / RENTIAE / 1749Backlit film, light box 872 x 625 mm Antinous/AcrobatsBacklit film, light box 451 x 328mm2015 The photographs of found athletic bodies play on the haphazard consumption of images and approaches to documenting cultural encounters. Speculating on the ‘rules of practice’ of a personal archive, there is a queered examination of the male body in the historic teaching of art as a tool to learn to look and draw, in as much as it is to be observed and admired. The photographs, found online and captured on a smart phone, suggest new archival hierarchies and topographies in reasoning their historic status and personal value. The images are represented through the medium of a light box, glowing and transmitting their message, both newly iconic and consumable. <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/080f746aa8d7b959eec37859bad71d45e4f97c194e7c8d455a8d808f685fcf27/46_steven_paige_light_box_2.jpg" data-mid="64292083" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/080f746aa8d7b959eec37859bad71d45e4f97c194e7c8d455a8d808f685fcf27/46_steven_paige_light_box_2.jpg" /> <img width="459" height="597" width_o="459" height_o="597" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64df30eb4682d35476445c58d6a1f5f6da7b16d48dda54893ae72373ebfdcee2/46_steven_paige_light_box_4.jpg" data-mid="134243178" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/459/i/64df30eb4682d35476445c58d6a1f5f6da7b16d48dda54893ae72373ebfdcee2/46_steven_paige_light_box_4.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; https://stevenpaige.com/Let-s-Go-Bowling Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:50:09 +0000 Steven Paige https://stevenpaige.com/Let-s-Go-Bowling Let’s Go BowlingSingle channel video 2016Let's Go Bowling is a short moving image work employing re-enactment and performance to examine relationships between film, instruction, leisure and individuality. This is a reworking of a 1950s film featuring American bowling techniques that through a process of restaging and filming capture key moments of interaction. &nbsp; Drawn from the originating archival footage the resultant film asks playful questions about learning, skill and deference in a post digital age. Performers: Leah Dunegay &amp; Conor ClarkCamera &amp; Lighting: Andy BanksSound Mastering: Neil Rose https://stevenpaige.com/A-Treatise-on-Beast-after-Physiologus Mon, 09 Mar 2020 19:07:17 +0000 Steven Paige https://stevenpaige.com/A-Treatise-on-Beast-after-Physiologus A Treatise on Beasts (after Physiologus)Print, books, comic, paper ephemera &amp; photographs2014 Forum, University of Exeter, UK A bestiary, in the form of an installation, recants the possible parables through collection of prints, publications and ephemera. It presents possible relationships between text and image, cultural artefacts and visual mythologies that circle the transformative ideas around 'beasts'. The work was developed with Double Elephant Print Workshop, Exeter, as a response to the Ted Hughes archive and collaborative works of Leonard Baskin, held in the University of Exeter Special Collections. The focus being a preoccupation with the more primal aspects of human nature which Baskin describes in a conversation with Ted Hughes as ‘crow haunted and death involved’. Contemporary Printmaking: Steven Paige <img width="700" height="467" width_o="700" height_o="467" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e763cd41521a27ca73bb929c311499116e231ef8163354488780ac18094f63f/25_beasts_steven_paige_adj2.jpg" data-mid="63126631" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/8e763cd41521a27ca73bb929c311499116e231ef8163354488780ac18094f63f/25_beasts_steven_paige_adj2.jpg" /><img width="700" height="489" width_o="700" height_o="489" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c801d759ca555b71c0ea42e6f68c20206200ac4910f3783b11bf99b577a3fccc/25_beasts_steven_paige_adj3-copy.jpg" data-mid="63126633" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/c801d759ca555b71c0ea42e6f68c20206200ac4910f3783b11bf99b577a3fccc/25_beasts_steven_paige_adj3-copy.jpg" /> https://stevenpaige.com/The-Ties-That-Bind Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:17:58 +0000 Steven Paige https://stevenpaige.com/The-Ties-That-Bind The ties that bind me to my Brothers are not wrapped around my wrists, but rather are fastened to my heart Single channel video &amp; performance, 2012.&nbsp; &nbsp; Exploring the concept of fraternal relations that incorporate performance, video and installation. The title a traditional anonymous phrase commonly used by US college fraternity houses. The Ties that Bind ... investigates the possibilities and outcomes of re-performance and re-articulation of text &amp; video through the daily performance of a short section of script, appropriated from the opening (non-explicit) scene from a 1980’s gay adult movie. Through this re-iterative process and by re-contextualising the purpose, place and form of the original, the piece unpicks a form of masculine identity and how this becomes a motif or modus operandi in fraternal dealings. Click here for short excerpt. https://stevenpaige.com/Popular-Pursuits Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:11:36 +0000 Steven Paige https://stevenpaige.com/Popular-Pursuits Popular Pursuits: An idle mind is the devil’s workshop Performance, Installation.2011. &nbsp; <img width="700" height="479" width_o="700" height_o="479" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa94ad97c403fa5e4c26b1728504573a9c2843eb57282d7d709df9b8d0d1181f/34_Steven_Paige_Popular-pursuits.jpg" data-mid="105250420" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/aa94ad97c403fa5e4c26b1728504573a9c2843eb57282d7d709df9b8d0d1181f/34_Steven_Paige_Popular-pursuits.jpg" /> Taking the phase ‘An idle mind…’ first quoted in H.G. Bohn's "Hand-Book of Proverbs", published in 1855 to task, Paige acquires new skills through exercise and instruction. From rope knotting to slogan writing, to playing poker and making paper airplanes, learned through practice and rote, each day a series of tasks will be set, with visitors welcome to participate, proffer their knowledge and join in the betterment of the artist.The space will capture the evidence of the endeavours, part archive and trophy of the accomplished tasks. <img width="500" height="334" width_o="500" height_o="334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9948c99fb54e0afc285e5421fd9f5133af72d7f8d90b0161b84047a59b5cab8/34_43_stevenpaigepp2011.jpg" data-mid="134089185" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/c9948c99fb54e0afc285e5421fd9f5133af72d7f8d90b0161b84047a59b5cab8/34_43_stevenpaigepp2011.jpg" /> <img width="500" height="375" width_o="500" height_o="375" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31fd7d13dfe7b32690fc2f008110885f3107a149c96cf6a91b708303aa87a975/34_42_popularpursuitsstevenpaige2011-45.jpg" data-mid="134089207" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/31fd7d13dfe7b32690fc2f008110885f3107a149c96cf6a91b708303aa87a975/34_42_popularpursuitsstevenpaige2011-45.jpg" /> <img width="500" height="365" width_o="500" height_o="365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b69162b66de110d3a713d5a6dd39d1cd09814c953d21b594b8d04c24f7c313b/34_42_ppstevenpaigeriff2011sml.jpg" data-mid="134089201" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/7b69162b66de110d3a713d5a6dd39d1cd09814c953d21b594b8d04c24f7c313b/34_42_ppstevenpaigeriff2011sml.jpg" />