‘An auto-focus-pulling play between a woman working at home sewing while watching an ice-skating diva on TV. Through the spectacles of the worker, the camera drifts in and out of focus between the two, leaving a viewer of the piece watching the watcher watching the watched.’ David Critchley …
Further Known Screenings:
2B Butler’s Wharf
London Film Makers Co-op
“This title, though it looks like a date, refers to the parameters of the variables used in its production. 20 and 1 refer to the fastest and slowest number of bursts per second from the stroboscope used to illuminate the subject, (- a metronome and a clock). 2 and 64 refer to the slowest and fastest frame rate of the camera, …
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1978 Birmingham Filmmakers Coop
1978 Slade School of Art
‘This piece attempts (and knowingly fails) to reconcile television footage on video – a car and on-foot cops and robbers chase from “The Sweeny” circa1977 with Aesops fable of the Tortoise and the Hare re-enacted by Alison Winckle (the walking tortoise), myself (the running hare) filmed chasing round a circle by Keith Frake in Bow Cemetry. The screening/performance involved an 8mm back projection of the filmed action with DC running on the spot in front of it with the video of the car chase on a monitor to one side.’ …
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1978 London Video Arts
1978 Royal College of Art
1978 Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry
1981 Chelsea School of Art …
Further Screenings:
2B Butlers Wharf …
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‘Dialogue for Two Players is the final version of a series of works started in 1977 with DIALOGUE FOR FOUR PLAYERS-a four monitor work, commissioned by the AIR Gallery, London. The works centre around a behavioural manipulation of a number of people (in this case two) within an environment in which they seem to have much freedom and with which they have to come to terms. The freedom is however an illusion, they may make only limited ‘moves’ …
Further Known Screenings:
2B Butlers Wharf
“‘Zeno Reaches Zero’ This was the first single monitor piece I made which could only have been realised on video. It was based on a conundrum – that of Zeno’s paradox, where the number zero can never be reached by halving any number repeatedly, ad infinitum. However, this was over- ridden by being expressed through recording and re-recording a series of countdowns starting at 256. A second countdown was recorded from screen and a new ‘counting head’ …
“With Trialogue I was beginning to want to work in a more controlled way, trying to use video across multiple monitors and multiple layers of recording to explore ideas that went beyond looking at the nature of the medium. This piece layers three parts of a single narrative across three monitors contained within a single tape. I think it was the first time I used words in a narrative sense in a video tape – …
