KIAD DEGREE SHOW 2002

'This evidence may be used against THEM’
By Lucy Panesar

4 x line drawings on paper (approx. 1.08m x 1.4m each)
3 x video documentation of public slide lecture performances

Film stills:

'Multi story car park' in Saga's multi story car park, Folkestone

'Northen India' in Mr and Mrs Panesar's house, Barking

'Science and the home' in the Canterbury Open Centre for the homeless

Drawings:

'Part concealed multi story car park, Ilford'

'Lakshmi Narian Hindu temple, Delhi'

'The Modern Housewife'

'The family scene will be dominated by television'

Artist Statement

I make art that imitates conventions of the 1970’s. My retrospective aesthetic reminds people of history; of development and progress. It reminds people of how society once thought, of how hippies and revolutionaries battled for some of the things we take for granted these days. My art reiterates, using the technology of then, with the angered voice of now.
THEY make pictures. Educational factual pictures, diagrams and maps and get us to believe them. Because unlike speech, which can be contested, we believe what we see. It all corresponds with the psychology of social influence and political propaganda; visual matter backs THEM up.

The slide machine illuminates photographs imitating reality; they’re embodied with authority and shine with a divine glow. But slides are now dated, flawed and exposed. Progression has brought us PowerPoint and Flash, Photoshop and Lightwave; the stuff Star Wars is made of. Bedazzling in its realness >>virtual reality >>hyper-reality.
We believe; we are in awe. What is to be done about it?
I'll show you. I’ll tell you how it all began with informative lies. I'll expose the truth behind such sophisticated displays of misinformation. I'll research the progression. I'll read about influence, conformity and control. How THEY control. I'll select and juxtapose evidence of this progression, exploiting their very own audio-visual technology.