“This work was made expressly for an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 1978 curated by Richard Cork. This followed closely on the heels of another Richard Cork show at the Serpentine Gallery ‘Art for Who?’ and I suppose was intended as an answer to the question. Submissions for the Whitechapel show were openly invited. I made a fairly simple piece of work in which advertsient hoardings were electronically wiped from the screen to reveal the often squalid scenes which they revealed. …
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“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. …
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“This tape was completed after Mike and Hoppy arrived, by coincidence, at a rally in Trafalgar Square organised by the Chile Solidarity Campaign (Chile Lucha) in September 1974. This was the first anniversary of the military coup that had overthrown Salvador AllendeÌs popular government in Chile, with the active involvement of the USA government.
The tape intercuts interviews with refugees and activists from the movement with the speeches and music made during the rally. …
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“The tape, is the residue of an insert edit strategy conducted over the duration of the installation, possibly a Saturday and a Sunday. The view is from the windows of the Serpentine Gallery on the east side towards the road running through Hyde Park. The strategy involved accumulating different recording-time periods: the first recording was one hour long, the second inserted from 5 mins in to 55 mins in, etc. all according to the previous. …
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This work is a compilation of the following:
1. ÎStreamÌ
2. ÎRadioÌ
3. ÎObjectsÌ
4. ÎCowÌ
5. ÎThe Heart CycleÌ
6. ÎLaughÌ
7. ÎLiftÌ
8. ÎLift (postscript)Ì
“Eighteen Months outside the Grounds of Obscenity and Libel” Mike Leggett, The Video Show Catalogue, Serpentine Gallery, 1975. pdf here …
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“The cat sleeps as several different radio stations are heard in the background.” Mike Leggett …
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This work also includes Lift (postscript) …
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“As a prizewinner in the Westward TV Open Art Competition, (film & video) I participated in an edition of the Westward TV monthly arts program, Spectrum, which included the screening of 5 minutes from ÎLaughÌ. The discussion that followed included Mike Leggett, Rod Allen (editor of Broadcast magazine), Clive Gunnel (Westward TV anchor man) and a Westward TV presenter. This encounter with broadcast television led to the subsequent publication of ÎWayward Action!Ì, a report on the whole sorry affair.” …
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