Nicci Haynes interview on Arts Café with Neil Doody by TuggeranongArtsCentre published on 2023-05-04T02:56:20Z Incidental TV is an installation of screens arranged casually in the Gallery space. Each screen displays a short film or animation that are experimental, short and mostly created without following the narrative conventions of ‘film’. This makes for a hard-to-categorise genre: video poetry is perhaps apposite. And while I have been using the term ‘film’, often, I refer not to actual film but time-based sequences of images assembled from drawings and objects. It was finding a hoard of screens on a nature strip that lead me to conceive of Incidental TV as the next iteration of my ‘Peephole Cinema’ installation. Films in the peephole installation are viewed through small holes in cardboard boxes. This manner of viewing is intended to unlink viewers conventional expectations of ‘film’. The unexpectedness of artwork in grocery boxes or on abandoned screens turns everyday object into magic; an element of working with found materials that attracts me. The casual arrangement of old screens presents the work in the way it functions for me: as a form of note taking and observation, a stream of thought, or a set of experimental processes. As Jean Cocteau observed, “A film is a petrified fountain of thought.” Head to the website for more information https://www.tuggeranongarts.com/events/incidental-tv/