Disinformation "Spellbound" 2

Brief documentation of the "Spellbound" video installation as it appeared in the Disinformation solo exhibition at Quay Arts (Isle of Wight, UK) Feb-March 2004. "Spellbound" is "An Allegorical Portrait of J Robert Oppenheimer" realised as a meditation on the psychology of aerial reconnaissance, created using original images by US Army photographers JJ Mike Michnovicz and Bernard Waldman.

A written prospectus for the "Spellbound" concept was originally exhibited in paper form only in the Raphael Cartoon Room at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, before the finished work was commissioned for the first Disinformation solo exhibition by Fabrica (Brighton, where "Spellbound" was exhibited in Nov-Dec 2001). Special thanks to Susan McCormack at the V&A, to Jonathan Swain, Matthew Miller and Liz Whitehead of Fabrica, to Quay exhibition curator Jo Johnson, and to Tony White and especially Bronac Ferran.

"Spellbound" is silent, but sounds of Disinformation's "Theophany", "The Origin of Painting" and "Blackout" exhibits can all be heard simulaneously in the background. The "Spellbound" title is also an homage to the imagery in Salvador Dali's dream-sequence for the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name.

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