Vacuum Idle Adjustment

Moore uses found and accumulated material to address the positioning of artist, viewer and artwork. While his earlier exhibitions have used a combination of found material that the artist has in some way altered, in this exhibition Moore works entirely with video. The accumulation of filmic subject matter and positioning of edits deals with the artist's role along the continuum of  original object and artistic intervention, and audience reception.

Hood attempts, in his accumulations, to re-order aspects of consumerism, economics, art, philosophy, pop culture, science, psychology and many other knowledge systems. Through his intervention and positioning, the materials Hood works with become commentary and critique, and something more than just what they are. The work produced during his 2007 Olivia         Spencer-Bower residency deals with mainly appropriated material, with a minimalist and maximalist approach. It sometimes includes among other things album covers, broken windscreens, videos of pigs, receipts and economic reports.