FutureEverything - winner of the Lever Prize 2010

Incident - David Cochrane

2009
Single channel digital video

David Cochrane makes single and multiple channel videos that address notions of time, memory and the formation of identity through habit, daily routine, and simple processes. While his practice does not contain autobiographical narratives, it does often use his own experiences of death as a starting point.

The work’s narrative is frequently determined by a single process, and shot in close proximity to the action in order to develop a sense of intimacy between the viewer and subject. Using common, domestic materials in habitual and often futile procedures such as tying ties, extinguishing candles and breaking pencils the works manifest as investigations into existence through materiality.

Utilising these simple techniques and an economy of means, while exploiting the sense of tension and frustration within these recorded tasks, his intention for the work, is for it to act as a reflection of the futility and absurdity of our collective existence, coupled with the shared knowledge of our eventual deaths.