‘Entering’ Description of the work. pdf here.
Handwritten description and technical details of Peter Donebauer’s pieces, including ‘Entering’. pdf here.
Description of Peter Donebauer’s work and process, includes description of ‘Entering’. pdf here.
Flow Diagram entitled ‘Figure 2’ for the creation of the work ‘Entering’ pdf here.
National Film Theatre, Programme Notes – ‘The New Avante Garde’. …
‘An auto-focus-pulling play between a woman working at home sewing while watching an ice-skating diva on TV. Through the spectacles of the worker, the camera drifts in and out of focus between the two, leaving a viewer of the piece watching the watcher watching the watched.’ David Critchley …
Further Known Screenings:
1978 London Video Arts
1978 Royal College of Art
1978 Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry
1981 Chelsea School of Art …
‘Dialogue for Two Players is the final version of a series of works started in 1977 with DIALOGUE FOR FOUR PLAYERS-a four monitor work, commissioned by the AIR Gallery, London. The works centre around a behavioural manipulation of a number of people (in this case two) within an environment in which they seem to have much freedom and with which they have to come to terms. The freedom is however an illusion, they may make only limited ‘moves’ …
“With Trialogue I was beginning to want to work in a more controlled way, trying to use video across multiple monitors and multiple layers of recording to explore ideas that went beyond looking at the nature of the medium. This piece layers three parts of a single narrative across three monitors contained within a single tape. I think it was the first time I used words in a narrative sense in a video tape – …
Further Known Screenings:
London Video Arts
Chelsea School of Art
Royal College of Art
Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry
Kunst Akademie Dusseldorf
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