TAM HARE

New Work - 2012 / 2013

Sardonic Shapes (2013)

Regressive Progression (2012-13)

Have, Have Not Installation Film (2012)

This is a short film of the installation Have, Have Not; from the MAPS 2011 exhibition, at the Ambika P3 gallery, London. The sequence includes - the entire audio track, which underlies the piece; an edit of the installation, shot from various positions within the space; the still images used for the light boxes; and the central film loop from It's a Wonderful Life (dir. Frank Capra, 1946).

note. The introductory film loop lasts for 1.3 minutes before the film titles begin.

TH, 2012

Troubled by a Fiction (2010)

These two images come from a research project which later became Have, Have Not.

A Faint After-Glow (2010)

Similar Subjects (2010)

Portraits

Yoshi (2007)

Andreas (2009); from ‘Habit’

John: ‘A Social Gesture’ (2008); from ‘I Dream of Home’

Scott: Camden Diptych (2009)

John (2007)

Scotty (2009)

Anna at the old Highgate Station; for ‘The Animals and The Veil’ (2010)

Serge:Un-Americans:(2007)

Richard (2007); taken as part of an interview and case study I did on the artist

All the following portraits are from the ‘Somebody Spoke and I went into a Dream’ project.

Elin (2007)

Bracken (2007)

Martin (2007)

Photomontage

Reflecting on Have, Have Not (‘Feedback’) (2011)

Isolating Fragments (2010)

Martha Hates Westerns (2010)

The Reluctant Traveller (2010)

David Kelly Montage (2007)

Photo-Etching

Ancient Smiles 2 (2007)

A Bad Day At Black Rock (2008)

Ancient Smiles 1 (2007)

Untitled (2007)

Traces of Rubble (2007)

Double Vision Down The Pub (2008)

Fluorescent Tubing Crucifix (2008)

Looking out from the Pulpit (2007)

Self Portrait (2007)

Silk Screens

The Dr. David Kelly Triptych (2007)

Central Image

Left Hand Image

Right Hand Image

Have, Have Not installation shots from The P3 Gallery,

September 2011

full installation

projected loop and light box

single side of the install and projection

light box of Nana’s Old House image

Have, Have Not (2011)

“I knew it was our teachers’ duty to crush us as much as possible; they demanded virtues of us which they themselves did not possess, the history they set before us was a hoax devised by grown-ups in order to belittle us and keep us in our places.”

Herman Hess; ‘History, 1918’, from If The War Goes On

Artist’s Statement

Cinematic recollections often connect with my own personal memories. This moment from It’s A Wonderful Life (directed by Frank Capra, 1946) had a specific significance. It conveys the idea of Innocence Lost, a notion I am exploring in the work.

My images are a combination of personal recollections and collective remembrances. They have been designed to merge visually and thematically with the film in this space. Their constructions are a reflection on youthful experiences, ideological control and social conditioning.

By projecting the clip on a relentless loop and coupling it with an audio track recorded from everyday noise, music and ambient sound, I want to de-centre the viewer by permeating the darkened space.

The light boxes, film loop and soundtrack have been put together in order to create a sense of confusion and alienation. This is a critical response to my views on the dichotomy between supposed moralities within social structures. Have, Have Not visualises my realisation of these divisions.

Have, Have Not; projected film loop and soundtrack (audio copyright Tam Hare).
Exhibited at the P3 Gallery London, in September for the MAPS 2011 show.

Nana’s Old House

The Strand Shopping Centre

Merchiston Park

Harrowdown Hill

The MAPS 2011 PV video was created by the artist Philippe Calia
(copyright Philippe Calia, 2011)

See Have, Have Not Installation Shots label for images of the work at P3.