Fortunes Fool - by Ellen Angus and Nils Gunnars
Video (2016)
Ellen : “I am interested in the ways in which advertising, branding and popular culture affect what we aspire towards and how they create a kind of ‘economy of desire’. How does this notion of an economy of desire affect our experience of embodiment, identity and longing?
Fortunes Fool is a video piece made with Nils Gunnars which plays with the concepts of nationalism, memorials, and poor housing. We are taken to a never ending grid where a helpful man from the Hackney Council (Hackney is a part of London, UK) gives advice on damp and mould removal in the home. A half-horse, half-woman takes an audition for a Harold Pinter play ‘Old Times’ above London’s skyline. And a flashback to the British Parliament when there was a secret government plot (in 2016) to try and oust the speaker of the UK’s House of Commons.”
Fortunes Fool is a video piece made with Nils Gunnars which plays with the concepts of nationalism, memorials, and poor housing. We are taken to a never ending grid where a helpful man from the Hackney Council (Hackney is a part of London, UK) gives advice on damp and mould removal in the home. A half-horse, half-woman takes an audition for a Harold Pinter play ‘Old Times’ above London’s skyline. And a flashback to the British Parliament when there was a secret government plot (in 2016) to try and oust the speaker of the UK’s House of Commons.”
