Catalogue for Performance Festival pdf here.
‘Electric Eyes’ information booklet. pdf here.
Research document for a video installation about the place of female sexuality within the mythologies of fire pdf here. …
Out of the Ashes (Installation)
Emotive Progression
Iamdead
The Object of Desire
“After having developed The Inevitability of Colour a stage further with Echo’s Revenge, I realised I had another step to go – I had to visualise the fascination that Narcissus had experienced whilst being enchanted by his own image – a punishment from Nemesis in response to the prayers from a youth whom Narcissus had spurned. Though initially predicating a feedback loop between Echo and Narcissus, I felt I should take my basic strategy of generating an image and sound track which having utilised a developed and therefore artificial grammar to produce meaning in the Inevitability of Colour, …
Zagorsk
“In 1992 I went to Russia as a cinematographer to shoot two documentaries about the rise of the Orthodox Church during the demise of Communism. I found myself in Zagorsk, a holy place in Russia that epitomised this changeover of values in the Soviet federation. Onward to Leningrad (or Petrograd) as it was being renamed St Petersberg and more shooting and eventually I had gathered my own material to make a response to what I was seeing happen. …
Conflict
The Gap
Parts of this were shot in 1980 and 1981 – black and white, it all fits…
-Terry Flaxton
youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex5OZWULpfQ …
The Inevitability Of Colour
I made this in 1989 whilst being an artist in residence at Complete Video in London – this was funded by Channel 4 and the Arts Council
– Terry Flaxton
“John Wyver had investigated the ideas of Walter Benjamin’s famous 1936 essay in his opening programme for La Sept, ‘L’objet d’art dans l’age Electronique’. The object of art in the age of mechanical preproduction was updated by interviews with Jean Baudrillard and Paul Virilio. …
BBC2 Building Sites: The Lloyds Building
Michael Craig Martin and Flaxton were given the challenge of finding a way to show the Lloyds Building in London in a new light – sometime around 1989.
Part of BBC2 Building Sites series
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In The Belly of the Beast
Directed by Terry Flaxton a 1988 short video history written and presented by John Wyver, using the Video Positive’89 Video festival and the Video Wall section as context. Broadcast as part of Granada Television’ Celebrations arts strand.
updatd April 2022 …