Synopsis
In
Stories,
Adams fuses storytelling and performance in a reverie on reality and fiction. The artist sits alone in near darkness while, in voiceover, he relates a series of seemingly autobiographical anecdotes – 'inside information' marked by irony, loss and black humour. The stark interrogation of self is accompanied by evocative narrative signifiers: a ringing telephone (an
Adams signature), a ticking clock, a naked light bulb, dice, flickering TV images of a porn movie. The ambiguity of his
stories – memory? dreams? fictions? – implies a tension between the construction of personal reality and the internalisation of the conventions of popular fiction. As
Adams writes "The
stories are all true. The character, of course, is fiction."
