"Continuing his interest in fan interventions into pop culture, Dyment uses found imagery, found materials and found methodologies to explore fictions-within-fictions, meta-narratives and collective confabulation. From readymades to painstakingly researched works, the exhibition includes books, records and DVDs (a two-hundred hour video), which examine in-between times and altered states." - gallery press release
pencil drawing
An extension of the parameters of the intenet meme. For more information, see the accompanying bookwork and back cover blurb.
For more information, see the book and back cover blurb, here.
28 DVD box set. Edition of 3
A collection of over 130 hours of dream sequences from cinema and television.
Vinyl records, LP sleeves.
Altered vinyl records mimic the lunar phases.
Collaged vinyl LPs.
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and the soundtrack to the Wizard of Oz are combined to form a single LP.
LP jacket, yellow plexi
Pink Floyd's second most celebrated LP, The Wall, is folded into the Dark Side of the Moon/Wizard of Oz mythology.
Found Oz acid blotters, homemade hallucinogens, 2010
Three forms of LSD are made according to instructions found online, using such methods as orange juice and yeast, and morning glory seeds and lighter fluid.
A collection of drawings of Judy Garland as Dorothy, as made by fans of the film, juxtaposed with online posts that discuss an alternate ending to the film which does not exist.
Ceramic plate, text, clamshell box. Edition of 25.
A souvenir for insomnia, this collector's plate commemorates Carol Hersee, the woman who holds the world's record for being seen on television.