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Lee Hassall [England] performance 15.00 - 18.30 installaction exhibition "Like A Budgie with Two Mirrors" is a simile used for a state of paranoia. The budgie within the cage is an enforced portrait. The piece combines live introductory action with 16mm film footage transferred to video. The film is shot using the single frame function of the camera, making each frame a self portrait. An eye appears alongside the budgie, made visible via the mirror hanging inside the cage. The single frame footage strangely animates both the budgie and the eye. A reel to reel tape player is playing a variety of wild bird song in the space. "In the last two years I have been using film as a sculptural tool to explore differing types of inhabited space. Using film is a way of focusing on objects and subjects offering them an extended eye. The 16mm films are silent and mostly show people involved in habitual/mundane activities. These portrayals become strangely stimulating. Tiny details, because of the absence of larger events, acquire unexpected importance and drama." Lee Hassall is a graduate of the Slade School of Art [1998] and completed an MA at Chelsea School of art in 1999. He has recently completed a major commissioned work along the Sustrans National Cycle Network and presented installation work at Fordham, London.
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