In Conversation with Cartwright & Jordan
… for their new show, Cairo: The Breaking Up of the Ice, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 23 January -28 February 2010.
Filmed by Little Star TV for Creativetourist.com: “Cairo: The Breaking Up of the Ice hinges on a film installation inspired by the writings of the 19th century artist, ornithologist and frontiersman John James Audubon, a man renowned for his epic publication The Birds of America. Cairo (2009) is part of a film trilogy made during two expeditions to the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, that contrasts Audubon’s tales of frontier America with its present-day counterpart. Audubon spent six weeks trapped by ice at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in a place now known as Cairo. Once wealthy, this southern Illinois town is now largely abandoned, devastated over time by floods, racial segregation, social unrest and economic decline. In their film, Cartwright and Jordan set Audubon’s narrative against desolate images of contemporary Cairo.
In this exclusive vodcast, artist and independent curator Dave Griffiths talks to Cartwright and Jordan about both the film and the supporting work that makes up their new show.”
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