The TV Interventions project signals the end of the period of investigation for REWIND. The series for Channel 4 references David Hall’s TV Interruptions of 20 years before, as the 4 minute clips intervened in Channel 4’s schedule over an Easter weekend in 1990. Nineteen works were produced by Fields & Frames Productions and Anna Ridley from artists including David Mach, Ron Geesin, Rose Garrard, Bruce Maclean, and Alistair Maclennan.
The Television Interventions Catalogue, …
This experimental documentary about the director’s grandmother was shot over a ten-year period, creating an unexpected and powerful portrait of old age. Remembering an old woman in fragmented and alienated associations. The attempt to find one’s own history in the image of the late grandmother. An attempt also to bridge the gap between a sentiment and its linguistic form with the means of video aesthetics. A radically experimental work.
– David Larcher
Web page (Perspective) with descriptions of David Larcher’s films, …
Psychobabble in a bubble
“In a loose sort of way it focuses on psychoanalytic forms and procedures. Lacanian ideas, schemas, underlie much of what goes on in the tape. His categories of Symbolic, Imaginary, Real translate particularly well into video, whilst his formulas and diagrams often rely on visual analogies. His seminars, ‘The eye and the gaze’, ‘The line and the light’, refer directly to optical phenomena, and his later concerns with topology and knot formation lend themselves to illustration in a visual format. …
“Hence the German title which refers to das ich, the ego, thus I, conceived of as an aquarium one gazes, glances, looks, views (blick) through. In the english rendering it refers homophonically to the eye and is intended to draw the attention to the latter’s formative role in the constitution of the notion of self. The glassy stare reflecting the containing transparency of a fisch vision through its aquarium/bowl. The fisheye (ich/I) which converts the rectangle of the frame into a circle in the process of seeing more. …
Performance: Tina Keane, Michael O’Pray profiles Tina Keane’s career so far for Performance Magazine, 1988 pdf here. …
‘Sixteen domestic TV receivers are arranged in a circle; each facing away from the viewer into the enclosed space; each playing a different TV channel from the next.. A videotape playing on a revolving monitor is glimpsed at the centre through small gaps.. each so fine that vision is restricted.. suggesting an attempt to assemble information coherently as the viewer moves from one to the next. In doing so, the continuum is broken. Expectations of narrative progression are both implied and rejected.. …
David HALL: SITUATIONS ENVISAGED. Richard Saltoun Gallery,
17 July—14 August 2015 London
David Hall’s installation presents a tower of monitors facing the wall; their TV broadcasts appear eclipsed and their original message transformed into an aura of coloured light and musical score (composed by David Cunningham). One monitor, in the centre, shows a 30-line image like those used in the historical transmissions of John Logie Baird in the 1920s. The piece comments on the iconic and magical nature of electricity and communication technologies. …
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‘Delineations involved the use of two tape loops, one audio the other video, stretched around the circumference of two identical and adjacent rooms. On the audio tape I made a recording of my journey around the space at the tape speed of 7 1/2 inches per second, pointing out items of interest and indicating my position in the room. On the videotape I recorded a similar journey around the other space at the tape speed of 15 inches per second. …
