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2| Autumn Song John Conomos Autumn Song is a baroque self-portrait consisting of many pun-encrusted memory traces of surviving the topsy-turvy ambiguities and dislocations of a bi-cultural childhood. "Up and down, up and down, up and down and Dad always smoking sixty cigarettes a day and waiting for the next customer..." It is a major improvisatory and poetic negotiation of my ongoing auto-biofictional project of articulating the childhood milkbar memory at Tempe, the in-situ images of me performing in the tranquil, wintry landscape of the sweet-sour Greek island of Kythera and enigmatic "Rosebud" images of my father's brother Uncle Manoli, who as a solitary writer on the island, cast a large shadow over my childhood. - John Conomos Autumn Song (1996-97) is a photographic and video installation that explores postcolonial identity. It was recently selected for the Locarno Video Festival in Switzerland. Realisation: John Conomos Editing and post-production: Jason Gee Camera: Chris Gaines, David Haines and George Zantis Additional camera: Sean Curran, Jason Gee Narration: Lex Marinos Studio lighting: Jacek Lukaszewics Digital media consultant: Vincent Sheehan Morphs: Jason Gee and David Haines Performers: Joel Conomos, John Conomos, Brian Langer, Manoli Plantzos, Farzin Yektaparast, George Zantis, Minas Poulos, Mahla Conomos Photographic stills: Geoff Kleem, Michael Myers and Dobrilla Stamenkovic Sets and props: Gary Manson |
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| above: documentation from the exhibition 'Autumn Song' |
images 1 & 2: John Conomos | Documentation Photography by Stephen Gray |