Critical Writing Index

Last man a mind-boggler

by Graham Hicks

The Edmonton Sunday Sun, Oct. 12, 1986

Graham Hicks wittily comments on the performance-video work of Alan Bridle. Using pre-recorded scenes and characters that manifest on twelve video screens, the artist takes on a live persona, Adair, who "zaps his companions to video deaths". Hicks interprets Bridle's polysemic multimedia work as an attack on the senses, as well as criticism on the blurring definitions of technologically-mediated experience and reality.

ITEM 1986.094 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

The Last Man On EarthAlan Bridle