Over the past several years, Gareth Long has explored the value, reproducibility and tactility of video. In crafting modes of the medium that extend outside the limits of single channel screening, he has generated artworks that not only expand the category of video, but also of animation, sculpture, installation, and performance. By capturing videos in solid states, Gareth Long has built a window through which we can look both forward and back at simplistic binaries such as digital versus analog, language versus non-language, copy versus original. As a kind of response to these awkward divisions, Long chooses to juxtapose technologies from different generations—new and superannuated—to offer a more complex view.The exhibition Second, Third, Fourth included lenticular prints, book works, and sculpture, drawing on a range of references, including personal narratives, YouTube videos, pop cultural icons such as J.D. Salinger's rainbow book covers, and classic literature including Don Quixote and Bouvard and Pécuchet. The catalogue features essays by exhibition curator Alissa Firth-Eagland, AA Bronson and Liam Gillick.

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