This is a Video Monitor (1974)

This is a Video Monitor is an attempt to construct a wholly ‘videological’ experience, and is built on an initial take of a woman* describing the paradox of real and imagined functions of the monitor on which her image appears…
Sound synchronisation wavers as she mimes to her pre-recorded voice – an analogy to part of her description. The camera cuts at the end of the first take and a no-signal ‘snow-field’ …

Interrun (1989 – 34 monitor video wall version)

“Cutting the image down into rhythmic clusters, isolating the fragment from its original real-time context and remixing it, Partridge pushed against the time barrier which he further broke in such large scale pieces as Interrun, 1989, a decade later. In some ways, he was in parallel with Cunningham’s own fusion of live and recorded sound, devising ways of sampling long before the technology was available or even named.

Installation shot at TATE Liverpool

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