Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise are considered the most illustrious, and best-loved, double-act that Britain has ever produced. For their Christmas BBC Special, 1971, the comedians did a comedy sketch with the renowned classical conductor André Previl. Eric Morecambe (the funny guy to Wises’s straight man), replaced the orchestras pianist and provided a shambolic performance that sabotaged Previn’s, Concerto. Previn, furiously shouts ‘You’re playing all the wrong notes!’ Morecambe cuttingly replies, ‘I’m playing all the right notes… just not necessarily in the right order.’
In this talk, Clare Strand will attempt to relate and compare this comic moment to her artistic practice, which places the photographic medium at its core, but then widens into painting and musical performance. This talk will be an informal journey that will hopefully draw together the right kind of ideas… just not necessarily in the right order.
Clare Strand is a UK-based artist who works with, but mostly against the photographic medium. Over the past 25 yrs, she has made work with found imagery, kinetic machinery, web programmes, fairground attractions and most recently, large-scale paintings and chamber music. She often rejects the default settings of the photographic medium and instead and without apology, welcomes a subtle, slow-burn, approach. Her practice is situated somewhere between control and a willful acceptance of chance.
Target group: People who are interested in how photography can be artistically related to painting and musical performance
