Lisa and John : WestminsterResearch

Key facts

A multimedia project that revisits, re-evaluates and builds on Pictures of the Real World, a series of documentary photographs of Derby families that Moore shot in the late 1980s

1 Lisa and John: Oh My Days!, 2017 An installation of theatrical maquettes, referencing museum-style dioramas.

2 Lisa and John: Look at Us!, 2017 An immersive installation of new photography chosen by the original subjects, Lisa and John

3 The Lisa and John Slideshow, 2017 A 45-minute play, with actors playing Lisa and John and a script built from verbatim transcripts of interviews with the couple

SUPPORTING ITEM

The Lisa and John Slideshow (verbatim script devised by David Moore with John Mosley and Lisa Wheatley, published in 2019; additional text by Val Williams)

ROLES

Artist, playwright, director and researcher

VENUES

Models

Format International Photography Festival, Derby, March 23, 2017– April 4, 2017

Belfast Exposed, Belfast, May 3, 2018 –June 16, 2018 London Art Fair, January 16–20, 2019

Play

Derby Studio Theatre, March 24, 2017 (two performances)

Regent Street Cinema, London, April 20, 2018 (two performances)

The Mac, Belfast, May 10, 2018 (two performances)

Full exhibition

London Gallery West, University of Westminster, March 9, 2018–April 22, 2018

Belfast Exposed, Belfast, May 3, 2018 –June 16, 2018

FUNDING

University of Westminster – £3,000

University of London – £1,000

Belfast Exposed – £1,000

Creators	Moore, D.
Collaborators	Williams, Val (Curator), Dent, Gavin (Producer), Toogood, Sarah (Actor), Mosley, Alan (Actor), Davies, Rachel (Film editor), Dye, Liberty (Production personnel), Brett, Elizabeth (Animator), Mosley, John (Researcher), Wheatley, Lisa (Researcher) and Regan, Lucie (Production personnel)
Description	As a collaborative and open-ended exploration of a photographic archive, via a variety of multimedia art forms, Moore’s research interrogates assumptions concerning normally concealed processes underlying the production of realist works or documentary. In this respect, the research relocates the photographic images in the wider field of contemporary art, using the conventions of verbatim theatre and immersive environments to critique documentary production within the images. Moore calls into question the certainties of representation by using methods articulated within photography in an expanded field (Soutter). This includes the development of a Brechtian device that places the photographer as a character within the work, and by making Lisa and John, the original subjects, active agents in the new project. 3D work also further disrupts the documentary paradigm through the inclusion of the ‘photographer at the scene’ within a museum like diorama. Collaboration in documentary practice is usually thought of in terms of working with subjects in the moment of creating the images. Instead, Moore’s project uses collaboration to disrupt and re-explore past work, and creates a future space for research, revision and reinterpretation of archives. Lisa and John has been exhibited and performed in Belfast Exposed, The Mac, Belfast, London Gallery West, and other venues.
Portfolio items	Pictures from the Real World [2017]
	Lisa and John- Look at Us!
	Lisa and John-Oh my Days!
	The Lisa and John Slideshow [Script]
	The Lisa and John Slideshow
Year	2017
Publisher	University of Westminster
Keywords	Lisa and John
	The Lisa and John Slideshow
	David Moore Photographer Archive
	Documentary Photography
	Archive intervention
	CREAM Portfolio
Funder	Derby City Council
	University of the Arts London (UAL)
	Arts Council of Northern Ireland
	Belfast Exposed
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.34737/v77w2

Related outputs

The Southgate Estate, Runcorn New Town, Cheshire. 1991
Moore, D. 2024. The Southgate Estate, Runcorn New Town, Cheshire. 1991. England Café Royal Books.

David Moore in conversation with Nigel Shafran
Moore, D. 2023. David Moore in conversation with Nigel Shafran. Sion and Moore.

Connecting Works
Moore, D. 2023. Connecting Works.

Ken Grant in Conversation with David Moore
Moore, D. 2023. Ken Grant in Conversation with David Moore. Centre for British Photography.

The Lisa and John Slideshow (2017): A Play about Photography
Moore, D. 2023. The Lisa and John Slideshow (2017): A Play about Photography. Arts. 12 (3) 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12030109

Lydia Carmichael, in her former classroom at Ashlyns school, Berkhamsted
Moore, D. 2022. Lydia Carmichael, in her former classroom at Ashlyns school, Berkhamsted. The Foundling Museum, London.

Pictures from the Real World
Moore, D. 2022. Pictures from the Real World. The Whitworth, Manchester. 25 Nov 2021 - 26 Feb 2023

Work Portraits
Moore, D. 2022. Work Portraits.

English Domestic Interiors, 1986-88
Moore, D. 2021. English Domestic Interiors, 1986-88. https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/search?q=david+moore Café Royal Books.

The Lisa and John Slideshow [Script]
MOORE, D. and Val Williams 2019. The Lisa and John Slideshow [Script] . London Makina Press.

Lisa and John-Oh my Days!
MOORE, D. 2018. Lisa and John-Oh my Days!

Pictures from the Real World [2017]
MOORE, D. 2018. Pictures from the Real World [2017]. Belfast Exposed 08 Mar 2018 - 13 Jun 2019

Lisa and John- Look at Us!
MOORE, D. 2018. Lisa and John- Look at Us!

The Lisa and John Slideshow
MOORE, D. 2017. The Lisa and John Slideshow.

Lisa and John
Moore, D. 2017. Lisa and John. University of Westminster.

Pictures from the Real World, Colour Photographs 1987-88
Moore, D. 2013. Pictures from the Real World, Colour Photographs 1987-88. London DewiLewis/Here Press.

The Last Things
Moore, D. 2007. The Last Things. London Dewi Lewis.

The Commons
Moore, D. 2004. The Commons . London Velvet Press.

Seen and Magnified : Five Medway Towns
Moore, D. 1999. Seen and Magnified : Five Medway Towns . United Kingdom Medway Publications.

The Velvet Arena
Moore, D. 1994. The Velvet Arena. LONDON Velvet Press.

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The empty stage at the Mac, Belfast, prior to the performance of The Lisa and John Slideshow, in May 2018