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Water Cycle
Blue Monday
“Blue Monday by Rik Lander (1960-, UK) and Peter Boyd Maclean (1960-, UK), known collectively as the Duvet Brothers, juxtaposes images of affluence, privilege and prosperity (for example, men in top hats, school boys attending Eton, a man lighting a cigar with a five-pound note, the Royal family etc.) against images of fascism (Oswald Mosley and the black-shirts’, police fighting with protesters at a political demonstration, and so forth). This is followed by by a full-screen text graphic ‘Rich Get Richer … …
Cosmic Dance
Page for The Video Show Catalogue, Exhibition 1-25th of May 1975, Serpentine Gallery, London. pdf here. …
Changing
“A performance where I changed through every item of clothing I owned, starting off on racks and ending up naked with a big pile of discarded worn clothes.” David Critchley …
Memory 1
Still from Memory 1
The first of the two Memory tapes, ‘Memory 1’ builds actions on a series of instructions, then carries out the instructions in a logical progression added to the previous instruction.
Further Known Screenings:
London Video Arts
Chelsea School of Art
Royal College of Art
Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry
Kunst Akademie Dusseldorf …
Yet Another Triangle
“First performed and recorded at Newcastle Polytechnic Sports Hall – re-recorded to be all on the same format at Maidstone School of Art, outdoors in 1975. Recorded again on U-matic portables in 1980. Again on Hi-8 in 1995 and again on Mini DV in 2003. The physical equipment does make a difference to the look of the piece, but the action is essentially in the form it was first made. A form of working to a set of instructions. …
Turbulance (1991)
A 24 Minute Retrospective in Two Parts
“A 24 Minute Retrospective in Two Parts placed one cassette recorder in each of the 24 bays of 2B Butler’s Wharf. The piece consisted of inviting an audience at 8pm at which point the first minute loop tape was recorded. After a minute, this tape was switched to play continuously, and the second minute was recorded on tape 2. After the second minute, this was switched to play and the third minute was recorded, and so on up to the 24th minute. …
Circus
Programme with information on works exhibited at ‘Cinematic Exploration – Expanding Screens 1960 – 1975’, January 25th – 30th 2004, Lumiere Cinema, including Keane’s ‘Circus’.pdf here …
Iron Heart
Flier for ‘Video Art’ 1983-87 by Marty St. James and Anne Wilson, 1988.pdf here …