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How to Become a Spy

Lookup NU author(s): Volker Eichelmann

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Abstract

The video ‘How To Become A Spy’ focuses on the idea of friendship as developed in Erskine Childers’ novel 'The Riddle of the Sands'. The emerging intimacy between the two main protagonists is paralleled by them being drawn deeper and deeper into a game of disguises. The video looks at the construction of male bonding as portrayed in what has been described as the earliest and most resonant ‘spy novel’ of the 20th century.


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Artist(s): Eichelmann V

Publication type: Artefact

Publication status: Published

Year: 2001

Location: Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool / APT Gallery, London / Hatton Gallery Newcastle

Notes: The work was first shown in a solo exhibition at the Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool alongside another video work, a sound installation and a series of watercolours; reviewed in The Guardian. It has since been included in 'Infallible - In Search of the Real George Eliot' at APT London, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Mead Gallery, Hatton Gallery.

URL: http://archiv.rolandrust.com/modules.php?set_albumName=HowtoBecomeaSpy&op=modload&name=Images&file=index&include=view_album.php


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