Nathaniel J Hall

The past week I've been fortunate to have been working with Gemma from Action Hero and bunch of talented young artists at Contact responding to Lou Reed's iconic album: Transformers. The week has been an eclectic, trashy and chaotic mix of pop culture and iconography and I've been amazed at the amount of rich material full of nuance and connection we created from the album and videos of Warhol, Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn et al. I also found out that Gemma also completed he

It's day two of the Action Hero Artist Lab at Contact, Manchester and we've been creating our own Andy Warhol-style screen tests. The week of workshops with Gemma, one half of the contemporary performance duo, is a fascinating look at creating work from pieces/movements of/from iconic pop culture: the focus this time is the album Transformer by the legendary Lou Reed. Warhol created nearly 500 screen tests but not all of them were kept. The originals were filmed on Warhol's s