People Like Us

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Vicki Bennett,  one of my favourite artists who I was lucky to meet and attend one of her workshops some years ago in Athens.  Since 1991 she has been working across the field of audio-visual collage and is recognised as an influential and pioneering figure in the still growing area of sampling, appropriation and cutting up of found footage and archives. Working under the name People Like Us, Vicki specialises in the manipulation and reworking of original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film and radio. 

People Like Us believe in open access to archives for creative use. 

Her Personal Page: People Like Us and one of my favourite videos: Story without end

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