mouthplace (1997)

The CD-ROM mouthplace was the first work that Jools Gilson-Ellis & Richard Povall made together. Begun in 1995, the work was published in 1997, and was subsequently exhibited internationally.

mouthplace was an innovative and radical work in its time, because it developed a screen-based work which was emotional as well as raucous. During the mid 1990s, artists of all disciplines were fascinated by the thrall and promise of technology, but much of this work focused on the technology itself at the cost of content.

mouthplace investigated the relationship between femininity and orality, and did so with a playful and provocative interactive design. The work was exhibited as part of an installation of 40, 000 sewing needles hanging from red cotton from the gallery ceiling.

• Oct 2000 - Virtual Incarnations, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
• Aug 2000 - Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• June 1999 - Darklight Digital Film Festival, Arthouse, Dublin, Ireland
• May 1999 - MECAD, Media Centre for Art & Design, Barcelona, Spain
• Sep/Oct 1997 - Incomplete Dislocations, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• April 1997 - CADE 1997: Digital Creativity, University of Derby, UK
• Mar 1997 - Intermedia Festival, Main Gallery, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland