TAPS and PAST (DVD)

2010
DVD cover

A double DVD set, published by Matt’s Gallery (London), with illustrated full-colour booklet:

DVD 1:
TAPS: Improvisations with Paul Burwell

A one hour, double screen, composite edit of over 80 contributors plus listed archival footage.
Edited by Anne Bean with Chris Bishop.

DVD 2:
PAST: SELF PORTRAIT. WHO OF?

A dialogue between Paul Burwell and Anne Bean, includes archival footage, text and images from Burwell’s many notebooks beginning in the early 1970’s.

Published to accompany the event TAPS: Improvisations with Paul Burwell.

The launch at Cafe OTO of the DVD, was part of an evening, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DRAM, featuring live performances by artists and friends who had contributed to TAPS and reflected Paul’s wide range of engagement: Phil Minton and Terry Day, Sylvia Hallett, the garage-noise band London Dirthole Company, Siren Song using modified Burwell/Bow Gamelan sirens by Mark Anderson and para-musician Chris Gladwin. Richard Strange was MC.

The cover of the DVD has a quote from Phil England, The Wire, November 2010, referencing the film TAPS:

Invited artists from all manner of performance disciplines contributed films and audio works which were infused with the expanded vision of reality that was Burwell’s project...
It’s an extraordinary work that needs to be seen.

Phil England, The Wire, Nov 2010

The film was screened in 2011 at Cooper Gallery, Dundee in a programme that focussed on Collaboration and Collectivity. This debut public screening concluded with a conversation between Anne Bean and Richard Wilson.