Stuart Marshall (1949)
United Kingdom

"Stuart Marshall was born in Manchester in 1949. He studied Fine Art at Hornsey and Newport art schools, and won a teaching scholarship in new music composition and ethnomusicology with Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University, United States. Marshall was a founding member of London Video Arts in 1976, and a strong supporter of British video art, as a practitioner, curator and theorist. He organized the first UK/Canadian Video Exchange in 1984 and his videos and writings were among the first to address the relationship between video, television and media. Her work notably explores representations of homosexuality during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, a time when the lifestyles and sexuality of lesbians and gays were attacked, both by the government through Section 28 of the 1988 government act, and by the prejudices conveyed by the media in the context of the spread of AIDS. Towards the end of his life, working with Maya Vision, Marshall made a number of documentaries commissioned by Channel 4 on gay identity and he continued to campaign for gay rights. Throughout his career, Marshall taught at several art schools, including the Chelsea School of Art, the Royal College of Art and Newcastle Polytechnic, where he made Pedagogue with Neil Bartlett and his students, a humorous riposte to Section 28."
(Source, website, Tënk)

Work :

• Go Through the Motions (1975)