“The artist describes the objects and views he sees behind the camera (which the audience cannot see.” Mike Leggett …
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Radio (Watching the Radio, Listening to the TV)
“A voice is heard telling a story. (It is the artist reading from Erota/Afini, the book of the film by Mike Leggett.) The camera pans down to reveal a tape recorder, which the artist then switches off, the voice ceasing. The camera is panned toward a chair in front of a tv set, which is framed and the camera locked off. The artist then sits in the chair: “ThatÌs enough of watching the radio and listening to the telly, …
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Bristol Bands Newsreel
‘The Bristol Bands Newsreel’, Artist’s production notes, 1980. pdf here …
Porter Pack
This work is compilation of the following:
1. ÎSwitch onÌ of the Portapak including momentary physical manipulation of the tape over the record head, producing breakup in the image. (This image is later photographed from the screen to be used to illustrate the article ÎInterferenceÌ, written for the Studio International Video issue.) Title of the compilation follows, then a sequence walking outside the house into the exterior garden, viewing the Portapak on the artistÌs shoulder, …
The Heart Cycle
“Abstraction and the ÎmaterialÌ image, as a recorded projection installation.” Mike Leggett
Plans for shooting the tape ‘The Heart Cycle’ c. 1973/4. pdf here …
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Two Drawings on Glass
New Contemporaries catalogue, an exhibition of work by selected U.K fine art students including Catherine Elwes’s ‘Two Drawings on Glass’ (Video). The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nash House, the Mall, London, 1979.pdf here …