Video artists John Wood and Paul Harrison have been collaborating since 1993 and, as Claire Doherty suggests, they draw on their fine art backgrounds to create formal compositions involving their bodies, objects and their relationships with space and perspective. Their work nevertheless provokes questions around presence and theatricality most often associated with dance and performance artists. One name that repeatedly draws comparisons is the post-modern dance artist and then filmmaker Yvonne Rainer. In 1966, Rainer wrote A Quasi Survey of Some ‘Minimalist’ Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or An Analysis of Trio A which argued for the removal of the spectacular, extended, virtuosic features of dance and proposed the substitution of ‘energy equality and found movement’, ‘task or tasklike activity’ and ‘neutral performance’. These qualities are what brings forth comparisons to this pair; certainly their latest exhibition From One Thing To Another (Picture This, Bristol 2008) featuring six new video works, reinforces these ideas.