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Article: Gillian Wearing.(video art exhibition)
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- Art Monthly
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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Gillian Wearing Brindley House (Ikon off-site project) Birmingham September 9 to October 8
Family History, 2006, comprises two video installations, one being a large-scale projection of an interview between doyenne of daytime TV Trisha Goddard and Heather Wilkins, who featured as the 15-year-old in the BBC's fly-on-the-wall documentary series, The Family in 1974, which followed Heather's so-called working-class family going about their everyday lives in Reading. The interview skips merrily through topics such as the transmutation of fly-on-the-wall documentaries into our obsession with reality TV, the changing nature of the British social triad of race, class, ...