Ambika P3 (curated by Michael Maziere), presented a major solo exhibition by David Hall, the influential pioneer of video art, featuring a new commission 1001 TV Sets (End Piece)’ 1972-2012, as well as re staging two seminal early works. This timely exhibition vividly heralded the end of analogue TV in the UK as London finally switched to digital in April 2012.
Exhibited Works: 1001 TV Sets (End Piece) 1972-2012; …
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My own piece Orientation Studies used a series of eight black and white video monitors lying on their backs below two viewing platforms. The monitors showed a repeated pro-recorded image of rapidly flowing streams and rivers which moved through the frame to produce extreme perceptual disorientations. – Stuart Marshall
Eight monitors placed side-by-side on their backs show a tape of edited shots of flowing water (waterfalls, streams, rivers). The row of images is seen from a platform giving a viewing distance of approximately 6ft. …
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Televisual practice and its economic determination. Nineteenth century bourgeois theatrical conventions and their effects. Sexuality and the limits of televisual representation. So what do we talk about? Just a few topics are available and you know them as well as I do. There’s sex of course, always there’s sex. We imagine, falsely, that we talk about it in hushed voiced, confessing our sexuality. In fact, weve been on about it for centuries, shouting it from the rooftops, …
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“An extreme close-up of a mouth is used to examine speech patterning, perception of mime, vocal cavity resonation and the electronic fracturing of speech. Mouth Works is composed by three works: Going Through the Motions, Arcanum and Mouth Room.”
Video Artists on Tour catalogue , 1980, Arts Council. …
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“An extreme close-up of a mouth is used to examine speech patterning, perception of mime, vocal cavity resonation and the electronic fracturing of speech. ‘Mouth Works’ is composed by three works: ‘Going Through the Motions’, ‘Arcanum ‘ and ‘Mouth Room’.” – Video Artists on Tour catalogue , 1980, Arts Council. …
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“An extreme close-up of a mouth is used to examine speech patterning, perception of mime, vocal cavity resonation and the electronic fracturing of speech. Mouth Works is composed by three works: Going Through the Motions, Arcanum and Mouth Room.” Video Artists on Tour catalogue , 1980, Arts Council.
“………Stuart Marshall, though handling his work somewhat differently, comes to similar conclusions when he says that his tapes called Go Through the Motions , …
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This is a single-channel version of the installation Chimera first exhibited at the Society of Scottish Artists, Annual Exhibition, Royal Academy Building, Edinburgh, 1998. It is the first manifestation of a collaborative programme initiated in 1997 between the two artists, bringing together experience and ideas from still and moving image-making.
Within a sexually differentiating society all our experiences are shaped to a greater or lesser extent by socially determined gender positions.
The body of a woman is colonised, …
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This is a single-channel version of the installation Chimera first exhibited at the Society of Scottish Artists, Annual Exhibition, Royal Academy Building, Edinburgh, 1998. It is the first manifestation of a collaborative programme initiated in 1997 between the two artists, bringing together experience and ideas from still and moving image-making.
Within a sexually differentiating society all our experiences are shaped to a greater or lesser extent by socially determined gender positions.
The body of a woman is colonised, …
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An installation by Elaine Shemilt and Stephen Partridge. A 4 projector installation onto Latex – joint work with Elaine Shemilt- originally shown at the SSA (Scottish Society of Artists) Annual Exhibition 1998 at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, October 1998. Winner of the ADOBE SYSTEMS EUROPE Prize.
Context. – Within a sexually differentiating society all our experiences are shaped to a greater or lesser extent by socially determined gender positions.The body of a woman is colonised, …
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