THE ADVENTURES OF GAS HOOD
Gas Hood Alarm 2024. Performance with alarm gong handbag.
Photographic collaboration with Debbie Sears.
L’Air: The Adventures of Gas Hood 2023.
Digital Film Prototype 4 09:09.
L’air, Légère, Leg Air, La Guerre, Grrr! 2022.
Film still. Moving image 05:33.
The Adventures of Gas Hood does Busby Berkeley: A Capital Extravaganza 2021.
Film still. Prototype, hand-drawn animation and moving image performance 06:56.
Butterfly Bomber 2023.
Archival Giclée Print on Platinum Etching 42 x 59.4 cm. Available to order.
Gas Hood Worries About Environmental Collapse But Loves Shoes More 2022.
Watercolour on Saunders Waterford 76 x 56 cm.
Raise the Alarm: Beautiful Breath 2022.
Live performance poetry.
Photography © David Goymer.
Gas Hood Say Ooooh Say Aaaaah!!! 2022.
Documentation of a performance at META ALARM, Bermondsey Project Space.
Gas Hood at The Averard Hotel, London 2016.
Photography © Alistair Gentry.
Gas Hood isn’t buying what you are selling 2017.
Film still. Performance to camera, yellow smoke and morse code 0:27 (Looping)
Gas Hood Beautiful Breath Pin-Up & Jeremiad 2022.
Full colour 4-page broadsheet 50 x 30cm 52gsm recycled newspaper.
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Articulating fear not as a violent scream, but as a quiet, persistent weight, that lingers in the spaces between light and shadow, and unsettling silence. Fear is not as an explosion – but a slow, disorienting drift. Equating modern life immersed in capital flows and the mass media, with the information analogue to gas warfare. Gas Hood takes on a frightening appearance in an absurd attempt to defend itself. Wearing a reconstruction of a WWI gas hood made to protect, badly, against early chemical warfare. Deadly agents fill the mind with the contents of the lungs, with mind-altering effect, to influence our thoughts and spread violent ideologies. Raise the alarm and resist the permanent war against the good in nature.
A tragicomic extravaganza of artless gags.
Laura Moreton-Griffiths’s Gas Hood Costume, 2016, speaks of resilient despair. This white canvas hood for head and torso would not protect from a noxious attack. In the witty, psychedelic video, L’air, Légère, Leg Air, La Guerre, Grrr!, 2022, a figure in a hood multiplies in a kaleidoscopic dance amid clouds of violent yellow and pink gases. One figure encounters a bottle of red perfume called ‘L’air’ and is annihilated in a flash. The grim context of ‘air-guerre’ is expanded in Moreton-Griffiths’s takeaway pin-up poster which features the poem ‘Raise the Alarm Beautiful Breath’. Gong baths and stilettos will not deliver ‘atmospheric justice. Clearly, coronavirus, climate catastrophe, and chemical and thermobaric vacuum warfare all inform this ferocious manifesto of the breath.
Review of The Comrades They Were Brave by poet and writer Cherry Smyth.
Art Monthly. No. 456. May 2022.
After Guston. The Group II. Originating drawing introducing Gas Hood, in ink on Saunders Waterford paper 76 x 56cm.