Part 1: 45 Minutes , Part 2: Halflife
Dennis Del Favero
2007
Two single channel DVD-Videos
Two channel DVD Installation
Dead Heat is based on the apparent suicide of David Kelly on the 17th July, 2003 and the subsequent Hutton Inquiry into his death. Kelly, one of the world's pre-eminent weapons of mass destruction (WMD) scientists came to grief in his encounter with the UK's Ministry of Defence when he publicly questioned the validity of the Government's claim that Iraq could deploy WMD within 45 minutes. It reconstructs a phone conversation between Kelly and a journalist, days before his death, framed by the Hutton Inquiry's psychiatric report on Kelly.
Dead Heat can be presented as either a single channel or two channel DVD Video Installation, comprising the DVD Videos 45 Minutes and Halflife.
Dead Heat forms parts two and three of Del Favero's larger twenty six part Slipstream project, a suite of three minute trailers dealing with the world of schizophrenia.
Dead Heat is produced by the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, University of New South Wales. It is written by Stephen Sewell, with music by Kate Moore and audio design by Tony MacGregor.
Exhibition schedule for 2007/2008
Marion Scharmann, Cologne
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide
Mori Gallery, Sydney.
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