Stanfield, Elsa
Elsa Stansfield was born in 1945 in Glasgow. From 1962-1965 she studied at Glasgow School of Art. Stansfield then went on to study photography and film at Ealing School of Art & Design, London and Film studies at the Slade, University College London. In 1980 the artist moved to The Netherlands where she became head of the department Time Based Media at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht until 1991.
Madelon Hooykaas and Elsa Stansfield worked together from 1972 until the year of Stansfield’s death in 2004, the artists were based in Amsterdam and London during their collaborative years. In 1975 the artists began collaboratively making video-environments, from 1980 to the early 1990Ìs Hooykaas and Stansfield were producing videotapes, video-installations, video-sculptures and sound sculptures and in the last decade of their collaborative practice they realized interactive installations and outdoor sculptural works.
In 1996 Stansfield and Hooykaas were awarded the Judith Leyster Oeuvreprize for their body of work, and in 1999 the their CDROM ‘Person to Person’ was awarded the Grand Prix for New Media at the Split Film Festival.
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Videography:
1975 What’s It to You?
1975 Moving
1976 Journeys
1976 The Road
1977 Just Like That
1977 Generations
1977 Horizontal Flow I
1977 Horizontal Flow II
1977 Memory Window I
1977 Memory Window II
1978 Continuing Lines I
1978 Continuing Lines II
1978 Labyrinth of Lines I
1978 Labyrinth of Lines II
1978 Moving Lines
1978 Sea of Light
1978 See Through Lines
1978 Videoveranderingen / Video Changes
1978 Videovijver / Video Pond
1979 Audeo Video I
1979 Audeo Video II
1979 Running Time I
1979 Running Time II
1979 Split Seconds I
1979 Split Seconds II
1979 Tidal Flow I
1979 Tidal Flow II
1979 Transitions,
1980 Eye Level
1980 Time Piece
1980 Video Void I
1980 Video Void II
1980 Void
1981 2 Sides of a Story I
1981 2 Sides of a Story II
1981 A Piece for the 4 Wind
1981 Cutting Piece, 1981
1982 Continuing Story
1982 Flying Time I
1982 Flying Time II
1982 Magnetic North
1982 Video Performance
1982 Wind Direction site n°6
1982 Wind Direction site n°7
1982 Wind Direction site n°8
1982 Wind Sound, site n°9
1982/2003 Outside / Inside
1983 Following Directions
1983 Out of Reach I
1983 Out of Reach II
1983 Vi Deo
1983 Wind Installation
1984 Compass
1984 The Force Behind its Movement
1985 … From the Museum of Memory I
1985 Stein und Wasser / Stone and Water, including Song for a Stone
1985 Video Volente
1986 Shadow Pictures…from the Museum of Memory II
1986 Point of Orientation…from the Museum of Memory III
1986 Point of Orientation
1986 From the museum of Memory IV
1987 Boat Piece…from the Museum of Memory VI
1987 Dialoog / Dialogue
1987 Phosphor…from the Museum of Memory V
1987 Point in Time
1987 Landscape
1988 A Personal Observatory
1988 Compass 4 Studies
1988 From the Museum of Memory VII
1988 Point in Time I
1988 Radiant
1989 Observatory I, II, III, IV
1989 Solstice
1990 Offerings
1990 Point of Reference I
1990 Point of Reference II
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Artist works:
