In this video, Richard Tipping plays two tunes on jaw harp: Waltzing Matilda and a kind of Scottish jig. Recorded as a part of his poetry performances in Germany in 1985, including the city of Wuppertal and its famous university.
Richard Tipping performs his poem Mangoes. Mangoes is a funny and sexy take on eating mangoes as a sensual experience.
A visit to a chicken ‘processing’ factory, where live white birds are converted into frozen carcasses. This film shows the whole process, and the migrant women working on the production line.
Committee is a short film in an Expressionist style which pictures the dictatorship hiding behind a committee. Set in the main meeting room on the campus at Flinders University, which is empty. The shadow of a door handle. A frightened student hides in a corner. …
An experimental film, one minute long. Showing multiple portraits of people framed ambiguously in front of a glass door reflecting sky and clouds. Shot in 1973 on 16mm film, using a Bolex Reflex H16 camera. Written and directed by Richard Tipping.
Richard Tipping and Peter Lyssiotis are currently collaborating on a new artist book, related to Richard’s word work Neoeon, and Peter’s photographs of neons at night. The Neoeon word work plays through iterations of the words ‘neon’, ‘eon’ (a vast amount of time) and ‘neo’ …