Old Men Trilogy

Glasgow-based artists John Beagles & Graham Ramsay use the content of TV comedy shows, pop music lyrics, and junk food marketing ploys as 'fodder' for their work in video, text, installation and performance. With a refreshing combination of wry humor and serious commentary that follows in the footsteps of 'duos' such as British 1960s/70s TV comedians Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, Beagles and Ramsay present a highly idiosyncratic view of the world. In You Got the Look, two old men present what the artists call 'bleak geriatric monologues of lost desire" through a painfully dead-pan recital of lyrics that were meant to be sexy. Burgerheaven, in comparison, presents a commentary on mass consumer culture through a combination of video and performance, in its almost ludicrous 'replication' of a fast food restaurant.