In artist and composer Graeme Miller’s 2013 film, the camera travels across a football pitch from touchline to touchline capturing the rain-filled imprints of recent action on the internationally iconic Hackney Marshes, reminiscent of a WW1 battlefield. This meditation on loss and gain features the final broadcasts of the legendary radio presenter James Alexander Gordon, known as ‘JAG’, who read the classified football results every Saturday until his death in 2013. The words evoke an eternity of goal-less draws that contrast with the vocal urgency of the crowds on the touchline and the graphic imprints of the body in the mud.
“Through an evocative soundscape and symbolic imagery, Miller’s END OF THE DAY creates a choreographic score that transports audiences to the heart of the match; conjuring up the memories of what took place and depicting the intricate movement language of the beautiful game.”
Emerging from the world of performance with notable works that include A Girl Skipping (1990) winner of the Dance Umbrella prize, Miller currently works across a range of media. His installation works that include Beheld (2006), Bassline (2004, 2009) and Track (2010-14) have toured internationally and this year his large-scale radio work LINKED is being reinstalled after 20 years of broadcast. He composes and designs sound for dance, theatre film and TV having recently contributed to works by Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment.
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Graeme Miller is an artist and composer whose work emerges from performance. He co-founded the influential Impact Theatre Co-operative in 1978 and his world-renowned work, A Girl Skipping won the Dance Umbrella prize in 1990. His installation works, Beheld (2006), Bassline (2004, 2009) and Track (2010-14) have been widely seen internationally.
He has recently composed music for Forced Entertainment’s Under Bright Light (2022) and Tim Etchell’s L’Addition (2023) for Avignon Festival.
His fully restored radio installation, LINKED will re-open this autumn in East London to coincide with the launch of Tate’s Radical Landscapes exhibition in London Borough of Waltham Forest.
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- Graeme Miller
Camera Editing and Sound
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Language: English
A film capturing the football pitches at Hackney Marshes, filmed as one continuous shot of the muddy grass terrain, sometimes flooded with pockets of water and punctuated by football studs. The narration is a series of nil-nil football match results being read out in the style of a radio broadcast, set to a soundscape of gentle music, whistles, football players interacting on the pitch and football crowds shouting and chanting.
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