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  • Multiple Artists …
    • Frances Leeming
    • Clive Robertson

Finding Faults in the Firmament

May 31, 1987

Leeming’s animated film, Man Made Life, controlled fire and lip-synch puppetry to provide a fast-paced cocktail of cultural stereotyping. Robertson’s video The Ganser Syndrome was also screened.

People: Leeming, Frances | Robertson, Clive | Subject Keywords: animation | multi-disciplinary performance | performance art | screenings | video art

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