A dual monitor video work with live performance directly investigating Pete Horobin's 'Digestive Biscuit Action' (1986), where he video recorded himself in the DATA Attic at 37 Union Street, Dundee, between 12:30-2:22 pm on 29 March 1986 attempting to eat an entire pack of digestive biscuits, dedicating each one to a person who had corresponded with him so far that year. The work is a meditation on personal and cultural history and an observation of the economy and politics of everyday reality. In 'R E - R E C O R D I N G', Roddy Hunter replays this 1986 video footage on a vintage CRT monitor while recording himself on MiniDV, preparing and repeating the attempt between 4:00-5:52 pm on 4 April 2024 in Matthew Gallery, DJCAD.

The work was conceived and performed in the context of 'History/Reality', the first public engagement exhibition of the project 'Curating The Digital Attic Archive: A Case Study For Open-Source Approaches To Artists' Archives', curated by Judit Bodor at Matthew Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. The video output of the original and new footage will provide a basis for a new split-screen video work exhibited to be later archived on the digital attic archive open-source web platform currently being developed throughout the project. Documentation of the work was also published as the basis of the digital collage R E - R E C O R D I N G' (THE ATTIC ARCHIVE), 'Soanyway magazine', Volume 2, Issue 17, Autumn 2024.

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