Addresses the isolated fragments of films, iconic images or scenes, that fleetingly cross our perceptions and thoughts in the course of everyday life. This title examines a kaleidescope of film fragments drawn from a variety of media, the internet, memory and fantasy.
Explores the construction of identities in the psychical space between perception and consciousness, drawing upon psychoanalytic theories to describe the constitution and maintenance of 'self' and 'us' - in imaginary spatial and temporal relations to 'other' and 'them' - through the all-important relay of images.
„Afterlife“ is a narrative text/image work on the model of the classic 'photo-book' Victor Burgin conceives of the afterlife as a parallel virtual world engineered along the lines of a ‘first person exploration’ videogame. In keeping with his premise he makes his photographs with virtual cameras in computer environments built with ‘game engine’ software. „Afterlife“ is an experiment with both a classic book form and a classical myth – a science-fiction variation on the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, constructed with lapidary texts and laconic pictures worked together to invoke ‘images’ understood not as optical phenomena but as events in the reader’s mind.