Marcus Coates & Henry Montes, A Question of Movement (2011)

The less seriously he takes himself, the more his audience appear willing to suspend disbelief. This – it seems to me – is the peculiar genius of artist, and sometime shaman, Marcus Coates. His East London gallery is currently showing a four-year-old film in which he visits ‘ordinary’ people in their…

Marcus Coates, Dawn Chorus (2007)

Slow down birdsong. Imitate it with human vocal chords. Record that and bring it back up to speed. And what you have is an uncannily accurate impersonation of any given feathered friend. If you didn’t know this, and few will at first, the 2007 film installation Dawn Chorus looks like…