‘Scratching Deeper’, article on scratch video by Michael O’Pray, includes information on Chat Show, 1985.pdf here …
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Perfect Scratch / Champagne (aka Chat Show)
Out Of It
Document detailing works selected for the Arts Council / BBC2 Late Show Launch 1 Minute Films, 1991. pdf here …
Descry
Reservoir
Luminous Portrait
‘The Television Workshop’, information on the facilities at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, and previous artists who have produced work there, including Judith Goddard who produced ‘The Late Show’ for BBC 2’s ‘One Minute Television’ at the college.pdf here
Publication Ò Judith Goddard, Katharine Meynell, Monika Oechsler ‘Abstract Still Life PortraitÌ Ò 3 video installations commissioned by KettleÌs Yard, 1992.pdf here …
Go Into Your Fridge/Stillted Life
Stateless
“After some considerable time playing, fiddling and experimenting with the possibilities of video, this was the first piece of work that I thought might stand up to scrutiny by the audience. The central image of a female figure was subjected to repeated transfers from tape to tape acquiring high contrast and instability in the process, an instability I did my best to control and create. Colour was added almost arbitrarily of which I am not now proud. …
After the Flood (Before the Fire)
“This was part of a work commissioned by LVA to utilise a video in a window of the Air Gallery during an exhibition of video art entitled ‘Scanners’. I was one of, I think’ 4 artists invited to participate. Each would supply 3 channels of video images to be incorporated into looped sequences which would be displayed on 9 monitors. Before starting on the work I became very excited about the possibilities of making images which would link across the monitors in any direction, …
Historical Necessities: 1948
“This was intended to be, and still may be the first of a series of shortish tapes which concentrated on a single year of the 20th century and of my lifetime. The rule was that all the material, images and sound, were in some way associated with that year but I try to avoid a history channel approach. To this day this is the only video piece I have made that uses found material. The starting point was the final shot of 3 parachutes slowly collapsing during a re-enactment of the Berlin air lift. …
Embarkation III
“A Haiku. Shot in domestic surroundings, making use of whatever images and objects came to hand, I tried to assemble a narrative or failing that suggest a situation that was open ended enough to be recognisable by a viewer in terms of his or her own memories or emotions. It seems to fit in easily with a number of tapes or installations with maritime themes that I made around this time.” Mick Hartney, March 2008 …