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Actor Kevin Atherton

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Cirque du Soleil: Fire Within is an Emmy award winning Canadian reality television series first broadcast in 2002.

Feisworld is an intimate look into the lives of a diverse group of incredible people through conversations with host Fei Wu. Having come to America from China as a teenager, Fei has carved out a life as a successful entrepreneur and mentor. These conversations with her teachers and friends serve to highlight both shared and contrasting struggles and successes with the people she meets.

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In Two Minds 1977

Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.

Gallery Guide 1999

Kevin Atherton leads us through a computer-generated exhibit as inventive as it is satirical. The museum is appropriately impossible in its scope, as Atherton playfully acknowledges the imaginative space of virtual worlds. The fantasy exhibitors have free rein in their show, “Four Rooms and a Toilet,” even to the point of cutting windows in partitions, exposing the building’s masonry, and breaking down the wall between the sex-segregated toilets. Atherton, as the gallery guide, justifies each of the artists’ disruptive requests in high-art terminology as we “move” through the rooms.

Television Interview 1984

In Television Interview, a two channel video installation, we again meet Atherton as interviewer/inquisitor, haranguing the cast of the popular soap opera Coronation Street on the status of video art, the monodirectionality of broadcast television, and the disempowered status of the viewer/consumer. Whilst taking television to task for its condescending attitude toward its viewers, Atherton also takes a few swipes at video art, telling the hapless Coronation Street character who professes no knowledge of the medium that “you have to force yourself to watch video art”. Thematically and procedurally in this piece, the artist lays bare and discusses the construction of the media image, both in relation to televisions mode of representation, and video arts appropriation/deconstruction of these modes. Blending wry humour with sharp observation, Atherton succeeds in crystallising several of the themes that were central to the burgeoning field of video art at that time. – Jeremy Welsh

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Common Ground 2024

Common Ground is a film commissioned by the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first conversations with artists at the site, whose proposals became the Sculpture Trail. The film delves into the history of the Trail, offering insights into the conversations between the early artists who created its first sculptures.