I work within a documentary mode creating both single and multi-channel video work. I am interested in how documentary, in its many forms, surrounds and influences us. The codes and conventions of documentary film, photography and television all intersect in my work. Through the investigation of these documentary attributes, I examine the role of the subject, the camera, the director, the installation and the viewer. The installation plays an important part in the realisation of my work - the placement of monitors, screens, projections and sound allows my viewer to interact and play a role in the work. This multi-textual approach fixes on people in my life.

In the last three years I have adopted the use of multiple, synchronised cameras to observe and capture my subjects. The synchronised cameras represent different modes of documentary, from traditional documentary filmmaking to one of its contemporary modes, reality TV. These modes exist simultaneously, recording the same sequence of events that in turn represent both fact and fiction in the one work. As the director, I always control one of these cameras and the other is controlled by my subject who becomes the director of his or her camera.

Kate Murphy