Method Acting King Kenny George Washington

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Alex Hetherington’s installation combines and synchronizes materials that simulate personal memory loss and fake memory syndrome employing a series of graphics, The New York Times newspaper logo, a large-scale mirror, black out curtains and performance materials, as both live re-enactments and on video, looking at exaggerated public behaviors as a reference to King Kenny* and George Washington**, personal relationships and dialogs with/to the press and the notion of events and our connection with them based on personal, local, national and international levels. These works make reference to and synchronize an array of materials, including Mike Kelley’s works Memory Ware and Day is Done, the video work of Catherine Sullivan, House/Lights by The Wooster Group, The Idiots by Lars von Trier, email scams, hazing rituals, newspapers quotations, marbled paper, explosions and biker gangs…


*King Kenny was a homeless, mentally-ill man from Falkirk who used to write his opinions on the press/media/local/national/international events using chalk and writing his statements on the streets. Everyone also points out his remarkably beautiful handwriting. He also used to busk playing a banjo at the lines for the cinema and theater. According to the group he died of some kind of poisoning. More on this soon.

**George Washington was an equally famous character in Falkirk (who apparently at one point studied Divinity). He stated that only Falkirk Technical School pupils who would be saved on the day of redemption. More on this soon, if we can find more materials on these individuals.