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When Humour Becomes Painful - New Meat (2004) DVD, 4:40 minTwo ventriloquist dummy self-portraits voice a series of cryptic monologues. They act in the burlesque, grotesque, melodramatic and slapstick manner typical of the British music hall tradition. The dummies were handbuilt by myself and John Beagles over a period of one year.

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Ramsay, G. and Beagles, John (2005) When Humour Becomes Painful - New Meat (2004) DVD, 4:40 minTwo ventriloquist dummy self-portraits voice a series of cryptic monologues. They act in the burlesque, grotesque, melodramatic and slapstick manner typical of the British music hall tradition. The dummies were handbuilt by myself and John Beagles over a period of one year. Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich Switzerland
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