Encyclopaedia and Other Works: Alan Currall

This abridged A-Z of Alan Currallâ s artistic practice looks back over a body of disarmingly homegrown video works that culminates in what (for Currall) is the magnum opus of â Encyclopaediaâ , a prophetic parody of a kind of user-generated wiki-almanac, with entries (on a dazzlingly diverse range of subjects) from the artistâ s immediate circle of family and friends. Adding to this repository of human knowledge are two essays by art critics Claire Doherty and Sean Cubitt, interspersed with fragments of Currallâ s video work. The publication is completed by a CD-Rom of â Encylopaediaâ itself. Published by Film and Video Umbrella. Publication supported by a Regional Arts Lottery Programme award from West Midlands Arts. The â Encyclopaediaâ CD-Rom was supported by the New Media Projects Fund of the Arts Council of England. â Encyclopaediaâ was made possible with the support of the 1998 Richard Hough Bursary.