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The aim of this presentation is to put people into a frame of mind to enjoy Contemporary Art.
Peter Davidson works in visual media and is used to sharing his enthusiasms with people in Art Schools and Universities, and with people generally.
'He goes straight to the heart of the matter - exhilarating' - Director, Museum of Modern Art, Calais
'Gets onto the right wavelength, I show it to my students' - David Foster, Painter
'This Video will open a lot of doors for a lot of people. I personally found it fascinating' - Sheila Cooper, Principal Librarian, Young People's Services, Richmond
He shows images from our everyday environment as much as those in museums - to reveal The Art of Our Time.
This Video includes A Guide to Approaching Imagery with explorations of Scale, Materials, Colour, The Significance of Titles, Context, The position of The Spectator and so on. Students' projects give insight into how artists think. We also make A Visit to a wide ranging Contemporary Art Gallery.
Here are some of the ideas taken on by this video:-
'The Artist must come down from The Ivory Tower and Programme The Environment' - 'The eyes are animals...they will never forget that red is the colour of blood' - 'Art is anything you can get away with' - 'Contemporary Art is an intensification of The Way we Live Now'
This is a thoroughgoing invitation to share in the imagery of today - and of tomorrow.
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This Video adds a dimension to The Poetry of Peter Davidson.
The Poems have already been published on Audio Cassette, now they are enriched by his own Visuals. His approach is very various - from meticulous Filming on Location to all the freedoms of Video Dreams.

PART ONE
THAT PERIPHERAL TRAIN
CONGRESS
DAME IN THE STRAND
THE LOCH NESS MONSTER
CARTHORSES SEEMINGLY IMPALED
TERMINALS
THE BOURBONNAIS
THE ICBM AND THE ICE RINK
BUMPY NIGHT 		PART TWO
BLUE GRASS
HUNKY DORY
THE CITY OF SOD
THE RIVER
BEATING THE SYSTEM

I found this an exciting thing to do. I hope you enjoy it.
'The films really do enhance the impact of the poems - a very effective and interesting idea' - Tom Burnett, Photographer
Peter Davidson gives One Man Shows of his Poems and Stories. He also acts on a scale from No.1 National Tours in The Theatre via Film and TV to Radio 4. Somewhere in the middle of all this he created the role of The King in Christopher Harris' play 'The Pixie Led' on The Fringe.

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Here's a rich development of Peter Davidson's first presentation of his own Poems and Visuals:'Together'...
'Refreshing to see an amalgamation of poetic and visual images, all direct from a poet's mind - with no intervention from outside - Tim Brown of The Arts Council Poetry Library
Both come out of his experiences as an Actor and Film Maker and follow directly upon his successful One Man Shows
His themes are very wide ranging - from Backstage Secrets ('Lest We Forget', 'The Real Thing') to 4 poems about The Gulf War

There are poems written in outrage like 'Chinese White' - about Tiananmin Square - and unabashedly jovial pieces like 'Nude' or 'A Stocking Filler'.

This video also contains some revealing poems about animals and a whole sequence where everyday objects command thier own worlds.

The visual content varies from 'true-life documentary' to several different kinds of collage and - in 'Snake', for instance - also embraces the electronic processes of Television and also Painting - as in 'Vice Versa'. His ambition is to create a fresh dimension for a poem without obscuring the original - 'not easy but well worth it - it's like making a set of individual films to an already established and powerfully intricate sound track'.

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