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Radio (Watching the Radio, Listening to the TV)
“A voice is heard telling a story. (It is the artist reading from Erota/Afini, the book of the film by Mike Leggett.) The camera pans down to reveal a tape recorder, which the artist then switches off, the voice ceasing. The camera is panned toward a chair in front of a tv set, which is framed and the camera locked off. The artist then sits in the chair: “ThatÌs enough of watching the radio and listening to the telly, …
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Bristol Bands Newsreel
‘The Bristol Bands Newsreel’, Artist’s production notes, 1980. pdf here …
Porter Pack
This work is compilation of the following:
1. ÎSwitch onÌ of the Portapak including momentary physical manipulation of the tape over the record head, producing breakup in the image. (This image is later photographed from the screen to be used to illustrate the article ÎInterferenceÌ, written for the Studio International Video issue.) Title of the compilation follows, then a sequence walking outside the house into the exterior garden, viewing the Portapak on the artistÌs shoulder, …
Sad But New
In Two Minds
‘In Two Minds’ is a two monitor video installation first exhibited in the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1978. This work consisted of myself on one video monitor asking questions of myself on the other monitor. The questions, typically of that time, largely address the nature of the piece itself. At the time of making the piece I had no intention of using it beyond the Serpentine show, the rough and ready state of the black and white tapes attest to this. …
Overseen…Overheard…Overlooked
Talkbook
‘Jeremy Welsh’ Live art in the Midlands – Commissions 88, retrospective of works at Wolverhampton, Stoke, Birmingham, November 1988.pdf here …
Day
And Yet.. Part 2: WTB
‘And yet’ statement on video trilogy 1991-3, Jeremy Welsh, Trondheim Intermedia Kunstakademiet, 1993. pdf here …