description

Years 0-20 is a playful and provocative essay in photographs and words combining text from artistic director Tim Etchells and images from photographer Hugo Glendinning, who has collaborated with and documented Forced Entertainment's work throughout their twenty year history.



Its topic is the company, the work and the themes and ideas that are so important to us - the contemporary world, identity, landscape, memory, truth, fiction.



At first the texts and images appear to be a chaotic accumulation of stories, moods, tones, scenes, costumes and events spanning twenty years of the company's history. Jumping backwards and forwards in time, there's no clear chronological or logical progression through the pieces. Some images and texts are clear, and detailed, while others are more partial, and resolutely incomplete.



Unfolding from within this fragmented and disjointed assembly, however, is a deeper narrative - an exploration of the personal and group memory of the company and the themes that it has long addressed.



© Hugo Glendinning / Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment 2004. Photographs and text.