Term

Term, Maia Conran, HDV and Animation, Colour, Sound, 7 min, UK, 2012 Maia Conran’s split screen work Term, mirrors a series of still and tracking video shots of the interior spaces of a disused school with its animated monochrome copy, that mimicks scene for scene the original video footage. Throughout the work Conran invites us to consider what is more real, the video of the school or its animated reconstruction, leading to a progressive condensation of reality, as the animated version slowly invades the authentic space of the video. Maia Conran recently exhibited work at g39 Gallery, Cardiff, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol, Aid & Abet, Cambridge, APT Gallery, London and at the CoExist Project space, Southend on Sea. She was born in the United Kingdom and lives and works in Bristol. DVD 2 includes the featurette 'Phoebe’s Rehearsal', with Olivia Darnley and Maia Conran. Directed by Maia Conran and Gordon Shrigley.