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Incidents in a Garden
Mask to Mask (1993)
Mask to Mask, Act 5 of the public Face Private Eye series for Channel 4, 1988. Image courtesy: Annalogue Productions. …
Pandora, The Bringer of Gifts
Smile Please
BBC Arena on Ian Breakwell (1977)
Auditorium (1993)
Made in collaboration with composer, Ron Geesin. Breakwell and Geesin initially studied audience reactions across the UK in a variety of theatrical settings, taking fly-on-the-wall photographs and video footage with sound recordings using parabolic microphones and ‘bugged seats’. Their belief confirmed that in dynamic live theatre the audience becomes part of a two-way performance, radiating an equivalent range of emotional expression to that emanating from the stage, they went on to work with and eventually record a 50-strong ‘performing audience’ at the Hawth Theatre. …
Larmes d’acier
The monumental, video sculpture «Les larmes d’acier» (Tears of Steel) consists of 27 monitors, 6 laser discs, and 6 laser-disc players, installed in a piece of black box architecture. Seen running in perfect synch on all the monitors are various images of athletic young men in the act of training their muscles. With their pronounced physiognomy and builds, they embody the type of muscle man considered a clone. The camera pans slowly over their faces, …
Marie-Jo Lafontaine Interview
‘This is a Television Receiver’ (BBC Arena Programme on Video Art) 1976
Commissioned by BBC TV as the unannounced opening work for their special Arena video art programme. First transmitted March 10, 1976.
‘Richard Baker [the well known newsreader] describes the essential paradoxes of the real and imagined functions of the TV set on which he appears. The second shot is taken optically off a monitor, the third copied from the second, and so on, until there is a complete degeneration of both sound and image, …
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Hothouse Documentation