Arthur Patching

  "Who was actually pushing the switch? I was, but he kept insisting. I

  told him "No, " but he said you got to keep going. I told him it's time we

  stopped.....

  Why didn't you just stop? He wouldn't let me. I wanted to stop. I kept

  insisting to stop, but he said "No..."

  Why didn't you just disregard what the experimenter said? He says it's

  got to go on, the experiment."

  (Milgram 1965, 128-9)

  My Work explores and questions the body objectified through

  medicine. The Trust we place in medical practice- playing the role of

  the guinea pig, thereby evolving non-consensual human

  experimentation. The experimenter seen as the menace is unknown,

  often only seen gloved. The pieces play with ambiguity and are cold,

  clinical, uncanny and almost alien.

  I work primarily with Film, which these days is an easily acessible

  medium to explore. I feel it encapsulates my ideas. The work is

  projected, which arouses a more encompassing feeling to the work. I

  am seduced by it's engaging quality-the capability to draw the viewer

  into a fictitious experience. I am overwhelmed by it, almost overtaken

  by it. In the words of Frank Capra,

  "Film is a disease, When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over

  as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the

  pineal gland; plays lago to your psyche, as with heroin, the

  antidote to film is more film."