Lisa and John : WestminsterResearch

Supplementary material

David Moore, Pictures from the Real World: Colour Photographs 1987–88, Dewi Lewis, 2013

David Moore, The Lisa and John Slideshow: A Play About Photography, Makina Books, 2019

Portfolio items

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