Issues of regeneration, social exclusion and the branding of a city in order to re-market it and increase economic growth are common to most cities.

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Performances and Vox pops of different local voices have been recorded and remixed to form an assemblage of oblique observations of everyday life, portraits interviews and performers form the text. 

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They are edited and processed to create new meanings and to generate a series of sub-texts - drawing on themes often present in my work - such as labour, masculinity and loss. 

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Sampled to ask questions of the spin and gloss we put on such projects - do we believe our own hype?

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River 'Brilliant' multi screen DVD installation commission for Culture Company, HTBA and City Screen, York, '00 and The Moving Image Centre, Auckland New Zealand.