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2001
NO DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPH
Artwork for Video on LED Billboard
3 of 5
Instructions for a Happier Life
Flash animation 1000 x 1592px, H.264
Colour, no sound
0:45
1 August 2001
Leicester Square, London UK
Instructions for a Happier Life
echoes the bold, colourful pictograms used in international instruction manuals.
The Instruction to
Touch the Backs of Boys' Heads
has both tender and homoerotic overtones. It is no concidence that this particular epigram was displayed a stone's throw from the LGBT+ district of London's Soho.
Unusually, no documentary photograph exists of this work. The only extant image (above) was salvaged from the original Adobe Flash artwork (now defunct).
Touch the Backs of Boys' Heads
was displayed as part of the cycle of works in the series so documentary photograph
2001.3.1
offers a reliable indication of the milieu in which the artwork appeared.