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Five Speeches

By Kate Stobbart 2011

Photo: Colin Davison

Silent looped videos installation of re-enacted body movements of five people who gave a public speech. Kate Aidie, Lady Gaga, Roy Hattersley, Mark Leckey and Barack Obama. The videos are back projected onto individual large paper screens (1.5m x 1.5m diam) which are each printed with the written description of their body movements throughout their speech.

Photo: Colin Davison

Photo: Colin Davison

K S Kate Stobbart

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Trying to look like Michelle Obama when her hair got blown in the wind when she visited the Queen

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