Monday 1 November 2010

Duvet Brothers live and installation

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> Adam Lockhart
> Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
> Visual Research Centre | University of Dundee | DCA | 152 Nethergate | Dundee DD1 4DY | UK
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> The University of Dundee is a Scottish Registered Charity, No. SC015096
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DUVET BROTHERS
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> PERFORMANCE/// 5 November, 8 - 9pm
> The performance is free but tickets are required - these can be obtained from DCA box office 01382 909900.
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> EXHIBITION/// 6 19 November, Tue - Fri 12 4pm, Sat - Sun 12.30pm 5.30pm
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> The Duvet Brothers reform to perform their iconic 1986 Live Multi-Screen Scratch Show.
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> 80's Scratch Video makers the Duvet Brothers have been invited to re-perform a seminal 18 screen, three channel, multiscreen show at the Visual Research Centre.
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> The Duvet Brothers AKA Rik Lander and Peter Boyd Maclean were pioneering Scratch Video artists who produced pioneering music, pop videos, commercials, and TV title sequences as well as becoming known for their riotous live performances.
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> Rik Lander and Peter Boyd Maclean will perform the show originally presented at the Limelight Club in Soho on 30 Sept 1986. This will be the first time the influential 80's video artists have performed together since 1988. They will deliver the mix live just as they did in the 80's using VHS tape.
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> The 18 screen array will run for the following two weeks, until 19 November, as a gallery installation. The show coincides with the current DCA Discovery Exhibition: The Long Commute / Arcade by George Barber and Jaygo Bloom. George Barber was a contemporary of the Duvet Brothers.
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> Centrespace, Visual Research Centre, DCA, 152 Nethergate, Dundee.
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> http://www.exhibitions.dundee.ac.uk/programmes_current.html <http://www.exhibitions.dundee.ac.uk/programmes_current.html>
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