Jessica Voorsanger Meets Gary Cook / Julie Roberts Meets Three Junior Doctors - ACE362.2

Examples of Voorsanger’s work, focusing on her series on actor David Cassidy, from The Partridge Family. Voorsanger (mostly VO) talking about her fascination with "celebrity", the experiences of celebrities, and the experiences of fans. Gary Cook, self-styled "biggest fan" of Blackpool Football Club, at a Blackpool match, and at home, talking about the kinds of art he doesn’t and does like. Match. Voorsanger says she can relate to the hype about the obsessiveness of football fans. Wants to collaborate with the fan for whom she’s making this new work. Blackpool seafront. Voorsanger meets Cook in his house where’s he’s surrounded by football programmes and other memorabilia. The garden. Cook and Voorsanger visit Blackpool football stadium. He tells her about his memory of a game in 1970 (coincidentally the year The Partridge Family first aired) when Blackpool were promoted to the First Division. She describes about the need to align oneself with either the David Cassidy or the Donny Osmond camp when she was at school. Cook at football match, and Voorsanger on the Golden Mile (intercut with part of film of signatures at Graumann’s Chinese Cinema) talking about what he might expect from her work. Voorsanger at tile factory, and talking to Blackpool team about what she’s going to do. Each of them makes an impression of his bare feet (or hands) in a wet clay square, and signs it. On Blackpool beach, Voorsanger shows Cook some of her "more extreme work". A packet of objects for David Cassidy’s Diet; film of a performance of Fanogram, Cook doesn’t think this is "art". Levering up paving stones in Cook’s garden, while he is at a match, and replacing them with the clay squares. Cook is thrilled when sees the new paviours. He realises that she had been teasing him with the other work he saw. Voorsanger with the Blackpool team. The finished work.