Mark LECKEY / 2015 / digital / 23min. (UK)
His witty and sensual films often take as their subject under-represented and overlooked aspects of British popular culture to explore ideas about personal history, desire and transformation. It started with a piece of found bootleg documentation of a Joy Division gig that Leckey attended in 1979 and the realisation that many of our personal memories and experiences can now be found online. From there, Dream English Kid attempts to create a record of all the significant events in Leckey’s life during the late 20th Century through found traces of film, adverts and popular music.
Born in 1964 in Birkenhead, England, and currently lives and works in London. He studied at Newcastle Polytechnic, Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London, and served as professor of film studies at the Städelschule Frankfurt am Main from 2005 to 2009. He exhibited in the 1990 at the New Contemporaries exhibition at the ICA. In 2004, he participated in Manifesta 5, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art. In 2006 he participated in the Tate Triennial and his works are held in the collections of the Tate and the Centre Pompidou among other institutions and prestigious private collections. In 2008 he won the Turner Prize.