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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Sharing authorship can’t be easy not least in an art world that is still largely predicated on the genius of the individual voice. To engender a profound level of trust is an essential ingredient in fermenting a sustainable and innovative partnership. John Wood and Paul Harrison have this mutuality in abundance and their humility and sincerity which is embedded in their practice lends the work its clarity matter-of-factness and of course delicious humour; attributes which perhaps belie the seriousness of intent and conceptual rigour which circumscribes their artistic production. The partnership which stretches back over 12 years has presided over a very singular time-based practice both accessible and beguiling at the same time. This book which is effectively a chronology of video works they have made in the last five years is a testament to their determination in carving out a unique space. The title of the book 124 minutes is characteristically reflexive; precisely recording the viewing time of all the works it contains. Or thereabouts. In reality the actual duration of the five bodies of work runs for a period of 12 seconds longer an inconvenient fact that would have occasioned a book title which was in the artists’ eyes unnecessarily complicated. Not ones to allow fact to get in the way of good honest fiction Wood and Harrison plumped for the truncated version which given the thrust of their work seems completely logical. Theirs is after all a semiotic practice which thrives on the paradoxes inherent in our experience of time and space banal human interactions and our fascination for the properties of everyday objects animated sedentary or otherwise. (MP)