David Blandy

David Blandy lives and works in London, using video, performance and comics to address identity formation and its relationship to popular culture.

Either as a white man mouthing the words to the underground soul classic”Is it because I’m black”  “hollow bones” (2001), or being taught how to make art by the deceased martial arts star Bruce Lee in “emotional content” (2003),as The White and Black Minstrel (2007), or seeking enlightenment in kung fu movies and anime as The Barefoot Lone Pilgrim (2004-08). Blandy is searching for his cultural position in the world. He often uses humour to ask the difficult question of just how much the self is formed by the mass-media of records, films and television, and whether he has an identity outside that.