l Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On. I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On

Common Culture’s videos, I Can’t Go on, I’ll Go On, I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On (2016), strip down the conventions of televised stand-up comedy routines. The video works record two comedians performing for 40 mins, isolated and spot-lit on a small stage in an empty performance space, without an audience. Commissioned by Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, where Dave was exhibited in Nothing Happens Twice: Artists Explore the Absurdity of Life the second part, Karen, was subsequently exhibited in Double Act: Art and Comedy at The Bluecoat, Liverpool.