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'Cinerama' featured two collaborations between the Turner Prize-nominated British film-maker and artist Isaac Julien and the Venezuelan-born choreographer and dancer Javier De Frutos.
The Long Road to Mazatlan
'The Long Road to Mazatlan' is set in the Texas landscape around San Antonio, this triptych projection - richly colourful and vividly soundtracked - explored the mythologies of the American West, the iconic image of the cowboy and its place within gay culture. The Western landscape of drive-in motels and desert skies, Tex-mex bars and Mariachi performances forms the backdrop for Julien and De Frutos's exploration of cultural space, masculinity and identity.
Vagabondia
Having exhibited among the ephemera displayed at Sir John Soames' Museum, Isaac Julien was inspired to make 'Vagabondia', a large-scale video-projection set in the Museum. Using the character of 'The Conservator' (played by Cleo Sylvestre) - a figure who had appeared in two of Julien's earlier works, 'The Attendant' (1993) and 'Three' (1999) - Julien reflects on the hidden history of the Museum. The past comes to life in the form of a vagabond dancer, choreographed by Javier De Frutos.
Cornerhouse, 19-Aug-00 to 17-Sep-00
70 Oxford Street
Manchester
M1 5NH
South London Gallery, 22-Sep-00 to 22-Oct-00
65 Peckham Road
London
SE5 8UH
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