TO LOOK NORTH

An ISIS Arts ‘Year of The Artist’ residency, a collaboration with The Northern Region Film and Television Archive (NRFTA) - Demixed by Chris Dooks.

"I was the artist in residence with the NRFTA for several months during 2001 and given access to thousands of hours of film to use as source material to make new work from. I suppose I was a kind of remix artist for the archive, observing the sociological ramifications of all this flickering footage as I processed and filtered the material during this large scale project.

I was approaching the archive with a strict manifesto - to try and find works which reveal aspects of life full of humour, passion and eclecticism." - Chris Dooks