‘Easy Piece was originally intended to be shown as an installation but it was not until 1996 that I actually got around to showing in that form.’ Stephen Partridge
“Partridge’s first works, which still hold good today, and continue to inspire new generations who see them, were essentially performance pieces. This was before the age of edit-suites, when crude splicing was the only option to straight duration and when all video-pictures were grey and visibly ‘degraded’. …
A short video piece from the late eighties, Atherton as The Sculptor describes a site specific work involving life-size models of rock climbers installed on a mountainside somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales. Atherton delivers an underplayed and almost believable monologue about the realization of the project, before laying bare the entire charade at the end of the piece when it is revealed that the monumental sculpture is in fact a small stone on the table top with miniature plastic figures glued to it. …
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“Partridge’s first works, which still hold good today, and continue to inspire new generations who see them, were essentially performance pieces. This was before the age of edit-suites, when crude splicing was the only option to straight duration and when all video-pictures were grey and visibly ‘degraded’. The image-word pulsing of Easy Piece, 1974, was made by fading in and out the key word of its title – ‘Easy’ – spoken on the soundtrack by a woman’s voice. …
Poster advertising ‘SPECTRO’ an exhibition of works by Steve Hawley, Tina Keane and Steve Littman, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, October 8 – 29.pdf here
‘British/Canadian Video Exchange ’84: installations, performances and videotapes’, a brochure detailing the video exchange with information on participating artists and works, includes Keane’s ‘Demolition/Escape’.pdf here
Brochure/programme for the Video Installation Show 1983 Air Gallery, includes information on ‘Demolition/Escape. …
‘The Chronos Project’, Vertigo Autumn/Winter 1995 issue 5 – article on LeGrice’s work ‘Chronos Fragmented’.pdf here …
The installation was made possible by the ACGB and facilities, rigging, equipment and travel and subsistence by the Kitchen. The masters were transposed through a standards convertor to NTSC at a facilities house in New York with the advice and assistance of John Sanborn, a well known New York video artist who had been assistant to Nam June Paik, and whom the artist had met at the Biennalle de Paris in 1977. John had assisted Steve Partridge to shoot the Paris channel of “A Coincidence of Space” …
‘I was commissioned by the Paris Biennalle des Jeunes and the British Council to make an installation. They also chose “Stuart Marshall and many up-and-coming artists from Europe and the USA, including Marina Abramovic, and Laurie Anderson. I decided to make a work which used the rivers of London and Paris. Shooting on the Thames proved to be rather difficult as the Crown ‘owns’ the skyline of London! On the Seine a young artist from New York acted as my assistant – …
A narrative in five acts, portraying formative events in Ian Breakwell’s life that shed light on his concerns as an artist. Broadcast on Channel 4 in 1988, the five acts together present a narrative on the interplay between the public world of surface appearance and social roles, and the private world of the imagination.
Channel 4 Press Release for ‘Public Face Private Eye’.pdf here.
‘Public Face Private Eye’ …
A televisual diary which takes a disrespectful attitude to the festive season. We share the artist’s provocative and entertaining thoughts, with digs at the establishment, politicians and yuletide conventions interspersed with items such as alternative Christmas recipes.
Press clipping from ‘City Limits’ including TV listing for Ian Breakwell’s ‘Christmas Diary’. pdf here.
Riverside Studios ‘Dadarama & Ian Breakwell’s Diaries’ – Artists’ works for Channel 4 Television, 1985. pdf here …
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