Screen Memories | Robin Deacon

Screen Memories is a monologue-based performance recounting Robin Deacon’s childhood recollections of watching public service broadcasting.

As a child of the 1980’s, Robin describes a landscape filled with images of Kajagoogoo on Top of the Pops, Falklands War news reports Alex Cox’s Moviedrome introductions and strangely disturbing public information films.

An exploration of what it is to be haunted by televisual imagery (both the seminal and the inconsequential), this performance may be understood as an undertaking in ‘signing off’ on such memories of watching and learning.

Robin Deacon is a British artist, writer, filmmaker, and educator. His work explores questions of memory, absence and fiction through a constant reconfiguration of his role as an artist - as journalist and biographer, academic and amateur, imposter and stooge. Robin is the new Artistic Director of SPILL