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Phil Collins - the world won't listen
Phil Collins, Video Still from the world won’t listen, Glasgow 2009 (c) Courtesy of the artist
Tramway, Glasgow
20 May 2009, 6.30-7.30pm
A discussion Phil Collins’ current solo exhibition, the world wont listen at Tramway.
Phil Collins uses video and photography to negotiate problems of representation by underlining the complex and unpredictable transferences that occur between the producer, the subject and the viewer. He often works in socially and politically contested regions, employing elements of popular culture, low-budget television and reportage-style documentary to articulate a form of critical proximity to contemporary media – both a fascination with and wariness of the ways in which they structure the lived experience itself.
For the exhibition at Tramway, Collins will present the European premiere of his acclaimed three-part video installation, the world won’t listen. Filmed in Colombia, Turkey and Indonesia, the trilogy features fans of the influential indie-rock band The Smiths performing karaoke versions of tracks from their 1987 compilation album of the same name. The work has been generously loaned to Tramway by the Dallas Museum of Art, where it premiered in November 2007.
Artist’s Biography
Phil Collins was born in 1970 in Runcorn, England and is currently based in Glasgow and Berlin. He earned his B.A. at the University of Manchester and received his M.F.A. from the University of Ulster, School of Art & Design, Belfast. Some of Collin’s recent solo exhibitions include, Aspen Art Museum (2008), Dallas Museum of Art (2007), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2006), Tate Britain, London (2006) and Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent (2006). Recent group exhibitions include Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2008), Double Agent, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2008), and Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington (2008). Collins received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Arts in 2001 and in 2006 he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize.