Allan Hughes is an artist based in Belfast and working out of Orchid Studios. His video installation work explores the production of remediated histories through the deconstruction of post-production processes. Hughes’ works usually proceeds from research into the sites, documents and apparatus of recorded and remediated histories. His installations have touched on many subjects, which have included Jane Fonda's Radio Hanoi Broadcasts, the decommissioned British Army listening post at Black Mountain in Belfast, the recording of Patty Hearst's S.L.A. Communiqués and the erased portions of Richard Nixon's Watergate Tapes. His works examine the precarious position of subjectivity within the constructed narratives of history and the processes of their representation and reception, acknowledging that his subjects are events, people and places that have been fictionalised as much as they have been reconstructed and recounted. Hughes unpacks the processes of remediation through a deconstruction of production methodologies and establishes a place that privileges listening and the rediscovery of subjective and heterogeneous positions within these narratives.
2010 has seen his work included in Rencontres Internationales at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Matt Roberts Gallery in London, SCOPE Art in New York, KYU in Taiwan and a solo exhibition at the Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast. In 2009 he was a recipient of a six-month Artist’s Residency Programme at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally with work shown in the Mediations Biennale in Poznan Poland, UNOACTU in Dresden, La Sala Naranja in Valencia, the Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast and the Beursschouwburg in Brussels amongst others. In 2010 he completed a PhD, "Screening The Voice: synchronisation, authority & objet petit a", at the University of Ulster under Professors Willie Doherty and Kerstin Mey.
