Rules Are Rules, 2020-2022
see book dummy Moving The Goalposts (2024)
https://www.blurb.co.uk/bookstore/invited/10246847/545cc41385e5d5263952e28a01f41bbc3cce1665
“I apologise for the impression that has been given that staff in Downing Street take this less than seriously. I am sickened myself and furious about that, but I repeat what I have said to him: I have been repeatedly assured that the rules were not broken. I repeat that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken.”
Boris Johnson 8 December 2021, House of Commons, After the Allegra Stratton video is released by ITV News
Rereading the transcripts of the daily government briefings from March to June 2020 after the revelation of “Partygate” in 2022, it seems to be that the substance of those speeches are meaningless, trivialised in the defence of Partygate.
Recollections are blurred reflected in the piece where the obscured text of transcripts has lost its definition. Although the piece is abstract it contains the narrative of the unity of spring 2020,
that “we are all in it together” and is questioning the relationship between power and truth.
2 Composites of all transcripts of covid related daily government briefings from 10 Downing Street during Spring 2020 (3rd. March 2020 to 23rd.June 2020),
1.20mX1.60m each, c print;
The audio piece “Never Saw A Cake” by Anna Power was created in conjunction with the images. This juxtaposition reveals the dichotomy of a government who imposed some extremely strict laws around contact and movement during the Covid-19 pandemic, yet flagrantly breached those same rules when it suited them, dismissing criticism in an off-hand patronising way and showing enormous disrespect to the public whom they serve.
“Never saw a cake”, sound collage by Anna Power in response to my piece Rules Are Rules
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eed7mlvce459009/Anna%20Power%20NEVER%20SAW%20A%20CAKE.mp3?dl=0
https://www.blurb.co.uk/bookstore/invited/10246847/545cc41385e5d5263952e28a01f41bbc3cce1665
“I apologise for the impression that has been given that staff in Downing Street take this less than seriously. I am sickened myself and furious about that, but I repeat what I have said to him: I have been repeatedly assured that the rules were not broken. I repeat that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken.”
Boris Johnson 8 December 2021, House of Commons, After the Allegra Stratton video is released by ITV News
Rereading the transcripts of the daily government briefings from March to June 2020 after the revelation of “Partygate” in 2022, it seems to be that the substance of those speeches are meaningless, trivialised in the defence of Partygate.
Recollections are blurred reflected in the piece where the obscured text of transcripts has lost its definition. Although the piece is abstract it contains the narrative of the unity of spring 2020,
that “we are all in it together” and is questioning the relationship between power and truth.
2 Composites of all transcripts of covid related daily government briefings from 10 Downing Street during Spring 2020 (3rd. March 2020 to 23rd.June 2020),
1.20mX1.60m each, c print;
The audio piece “Never Saw A Cake” by Anna Power was created in conjunction with the images. This juxtaposition reveals the dichotomy of a government who imposed some extremely strict laws around contact and movement during the Covid-19 pandemic, yet flagrantly breached those same rules when it suited them, dismissing criticism in an off-hand patronising way and showing enormous disrespect to the public whom they serve.
“Never saw a cake”, sound collage by Anna Power in response to my piece Rules Are Rules
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eed7mlvce459009/Anna%20Power%20NEVER%20SAW%20A%20CAKE.mp3?dl=0
