‘My Diary is, as a personal witness, that of description and observation and speculation, pondering on what might be now: what is on the other side of that wall? that door? those closed curatins?’ – Ian Breakwell
Developed from Ian Breakwell’s published Diaries, these 21 short works provide an objective, compassionate, often humorous and bizarre view of events that happen around us daily.
Promotional Card for Breakwell’s Continuous Diary.pdf here. …
Catalogue for Biddick Farm Artists Video 1977 pdf here
“Of the origins of In the Mind’s Eye (1977) she (Tamara Krikorian) wrote:
“I thought about ways of approaching formalism through some sort of restricted narrative, and I used Rimbald’s poem ‘In Winter’ [describing a railway journey] as the structure of the work, while retaining obvious self-referral devices…concerned with the perception of video/TV per se.’
We hear her read the poem in French, …
“In Unassembled Information (1977) the screen is dominated by the back of her head, past which can be glimpsed fragments of her face in the small mirror she is holding, while a radio is playing. Thus she negated the elaborately constructed image of the TV presenter; with the radio a reminder of importance of the spectator’s imagination, so rarley addressed by television.”
David Curtis, A History of Artists’ Film and Video in Britain. British Film Institute, …
“Vanitas came after seeing a French painting attributed to Nicolas Tournier at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, An Allegory of Justice and Vanity . Vanitas is a self-portrait of the artist and at the same time an allegory of the ephemeral nature of television.’ – Tamara Krikorian 1978
Above statement written by the artist on Vanitas, single-screen installation.
Vanitas installed at the REWIND Soft Launch 2006
Restaged for the REWIND Soft Launch at DCA, …
Leaflet detailing information on the artist and recent works, including ‘The Question Is’.pdf here …
Continue reading “The Question is… Is this art? Is this entertainment?”
‘Videotapes by British Artists – Galleria del cavallino, san marco 1725 venezia’, a programme of videotapes and installations, 1977. Includes information on ‘Interruptions’.pdf here …
On the basis of seeing Beginning the BBC commissioned ‘Entering’ as a short version
Page for The Video Show Catalogue, Exhibition 1-25th of May 1975, Serpentine Gallery, London. pdf here. …
