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Orientation Studies (Installation 1976)

Orientation Studies (Installation 1976)

My own piece Orientation Studies used a series of eight black and white video monitors lying on their backs below two viewing platforms. The monitors showed a repeated pro-recorded image of rapidly flowing streams and rivers which moved through the frame to produce extreme perceptual disorientations. – Stuart Marshall

Eight monitors placed side-by-side on their backs show a tape of edited shots of flowing water (waterfalls, streams, rivers). The row of images is seen from a platform giving a viewing distance of approximately 6ft. …

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Distinct (1979)

Televisual practice and its economic determination. Nineteenth century bourgeois theatrical conventions and their effects. Sexuality and the limits of televisual representation. So what do we talk about? Just a few topics are available and you know them as well as I do. There’s sex of course, always there’s sex. We imagine, falsely, that we talk about it in hushed voiced, confessing our sexuality. In fact, weve been on about it for centuries, shouting it from the rooftops, …

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Arcanum (1976)

“An extreme close-up of a mouth is used to examine speech patterning, perception of mime, vocal cavity resonation and the electronic fracturing of speech. Mouth Works is composed by three works: Going Through the Motions, Arcanum and Mouth Room.”
Video Artists on Tour catalogue , 1980, Arts Council. …

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Mouth Room (1976)

“An extreme close-up of a mouth is used to examine speech patterning, perception of mime, vocal cavity resonation and the electronic fracturing of speech. ‘Mouth Works’ is composed by three works: ‘Going Through the Motions’, ‘Arcanum ‘ and ‘Mouth Room’.” – Video Artists on Tour catalogue , 1980, Arts Council. …

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Go Through the Motions (1975)

“An extreme close-up of a mouth is used to examine speech patterning, perception of mime, vocal cavity resonation and the electronic fracturing of speech. Mouth Works is composed by three works: Going Through the Motions, Arcanum and Mouth Room.”  Video Artists on Tour catalogue , 1980, Arts Council.

“………Stuart Marshall, though handling his work somewhat differently, comes to similar conclusions when he says that his tapes called Go Through the Motions , …

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