Low Attention Span

Artist: Tiago Carneiro da Cunha
40:00 min, Brazil 2000

This is a video-portrait of the actor Peter Elliot, a specialist in imitating gorillas, who has worked on movies such as 'Gorillas in the Myst' and 'Greystoke'.  It was shot during a single 3-hour long performance session in my studio, in the final year of my postgraduate studies in Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College, London. It is also a self-portrait of sorts: a humorous take on the 'artist in the studio' motif of early performance/video work by artists like Nauman, Mcarthy or Acconci.

run-time: September 2011