Michael’s Theme

Michael’s Theme uses previously unbroadcast fragments from the opening and closing of several episodes in the first two series of Parkinson from the 1970’s. The work explores the talk-show convention of revealing the mechanisms of television-making, as well as the notion of improvisation within the ‘recorded-as-live’ TV format and within the repeated live renditions of the jazz theme tune in those earlier episodes. As part of the Artists’ Moving Image at the BBC series.