Using video, text, drawings, music and a variety of props, Georgina Starr transforms casual incidents into fully orchestrated excursions.
Visit to a Small Planet is Starr's reconstruction from memory of a film that she once saw as a ten year old child, but was later unable to trace.
As she recalled more and more of the film, she also added details from her own life at the time when she saw it. She says of her version, 'a new sort of history develops ... I had my memory of the film with Jerry and Dino and their mind-reading antics. I had my memory of what I was doing just before I saw the film, with my family in a house in Leeds, dancing to a Saturday Night Fever L.P. while my mother rampaged through the house, and I had this new version which described my own adventures as I began to re-enact parts from the new script and experiment with these new-found powers on video.'
Work included in The British Art Show 4
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Georgina Starr was born in 1968 in Leeds. She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 1992 and in 1993-94 spent a year at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunst in Amsterdam. She has exhibited widely in Britain, Europe, the USA and Japan. Her work was included in "Brilliant!" New Art from London, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1995 and will be shown at the Tate Gallery in February 1996.
Georgina Starr was in conversation with Marcelo Spinelli for the British Art Show IV talking about:
-Visit To A Small Planet
-Art and the Public
-Crying
-Erik/Getting To Know You
-Mentioning
-Static Steps
-The Nine Collections of the Seventh Museum