Welcome back to Art Fictions ! Jordan Baseman selects ‘Strangers on a Train’ by Patricia Highsmith. Published in 1950, the book tells of Bruno and Guy who happen meet on a train and, between whiskies and cigarettes, Bruno suggests they swap murders. I’ll kill your pesky wife if you kill my horrid father. Seems fair though somewhat macabre, not at all the sort of thing a nice young woman from Texas ought to be writing about and very much against the law. What starts badly ends even worse as the double murders lead to Bruno drowning in the sea and Guy drowning in guilt. Jordan is very much taken by the book’s single focussed account of the two men as we contrast the multitude of aspects found in any one person, which he depicts as simply as possible in his short films. Alfred Hitchcock’s adaption of the book into film makes for further pondering about social status and the American post war context.
0:00 - 0:28 the book, the film, post war America, context, no happy endings, celebrity, image, good and evil, Trump, complexity of the self, psychoanalysis, expectations of wealth and material goods
0:28 - 0:55 Jordan's films, portraiture, self portraiture, construction, artifice, film production techniques, interplay of visuals and audio
0:55 - 1:06 influences, artists, books, where to see Jordan's work
JORDAN BASEMAN
Jordanbaseman.co.uk
mattsgallery.org
‘Blackout’
‘Gendersick’
‘Veil’
‘The Sun Always Shines on the Righteous’
‘The Dandy Doctrine’
‘The Last Walk’
BOOKS & WRITERS
‘Difficult Women’ 2017 by Roxane Gay
‘Critical Path’ 1981 by Buckminster Fuller
Czenzi Ormonde, author and screenwriter
Phyllis Nagy, screenwriter
Raymond Chandler, author and screenwriter
Roxane Gay, author, professor, editor, social commentator
Stephen King
Jonathan Franzen
SCREEN
‘Strangers on a Train’ 1951 directed by Alfred Hitchcock
‘The Wizard of Oz’ 1939 directed by Victor Fleming
‘The Hitch Hiker’ 1953 directed by Ida Lupino
‘Match Point’ 2005 directed by Woody Allen
‘The Midnight Gospel’ 2020 animation series on Netflix
ARTISTS
Robert Mapplethorpe 1946-1989
Jennifer West – film, installation, performance, zines
‘Christ’s Entry into Journalism’ by Kara Walker at MoMA
MUSIC
‘Extreme Love’ by Holly Hendron
‘Horses’ by Patti Smith
Michael Stipe
Symbolic Prose and Personal Politics (HELEN JOHNSON)
Closure Difficulties and Performative Reality (ELEONORA AGOSTINI)
Social Mobility and Beyond Language (MELANIE JACKSON)
Revealing Histories and Gender Variations (JULIET JACQUES)
Unwavering Sensitivity and Valuing Confusion (ANNA CLEGG)
Absent Mothers and Colonised Bodies (OLUKEMI LIJADU)
Suppressed Voices and Transformative Communities (RORY PILGRIM)
Word Play and Multiple Meanings (ANNA BARHAM)
Resistance Acoustics and Hopeful Uprising (MIKHAIL KARIKIS)
Arbitrary Traditions and Alien Observations (ROSIE GIBBENS)
Cultural Fear and Self Permission (CERI HAND)
Second Bodies and Talking Ice (SUSAN SCHUPPLI)
Disconnected Characters and Contradictory Spiritualism (SOPHIE RUIGROK)
Dark Humour and Watery Figures (NICOLA BEALING)
Slow Dancing and Fluid Encounters (FLORENCE PEAKE)
Channelling Spirits and Excluded Histories (JENNIFER HIGGIE)
Rural Reality and Complex Systems (KATIE PRATT)
Gender Entrapment and Performative Mythologies (ANNA PERACH)
CULTURE EXCHANGE - Artistic Protest and Rightful Sovereignty (PAOLA BALLA)
CULTURE EXCHANGE - Female Resilience and Bodily Playgrounds (INGRID BERTHON-MOINE)
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