Film UbuWebJohn Wood (b. 1969) and Paul Harrison (b. 1966)
Nothing Special: Selected Video Works 1993-2011
Board Boat Three-Legged Device Two Wall Sections Twenty-Six (Drawing and Falling Things) [extract] 66.86 m Hundredweight [extract] Notebook [extract] The Only Other Point [extract] Photocopier Blind / Spot Night and Day [extract] One More Kilometre 10x10 [extract] Bored Astronauts on the Moon [extract]
Bristol-based duo Paul Harrison and John Wood could be described as an art-world equivalent to Laurel and Hardy. In this film the artists invite TateShots to meet them at their studio.
Their videos, showing their dead-pan antics as they dangle precariously from a ladder, slide on office chairs around the back of a moving van, and submit themselves to a drenching from dozens of watering cans, are both hilarious and thought provoking.