Installation No 1 (1976)

Creator:

Partridge, Stephen

Duration: Live CCTV

Year: 1976
Media types:
Video
Type of work:
Closed Circuit TV Installation
Installation

Funding source: Scottish Arts Council

First exhibited: 'Towards Defining An Aesthetic', Third Eye Centre, Glasgow.

Technical details: 4 x monitors, 4 camera cctv. Video Mixer

Closed-circuit video installation using 4 cameras and 4 monitors and vision mixer. Cameras 1 and 2 were fed to a mixer which superimposed one on the other and fed monitors B and D. Cameras 3 and 4 fed monitors A and C and therefore the spectator could not see their image directly, only as a mix on monitors B and D as an iage within an image.

David Hall checking his image in Installation No.1
Study of British Video Installation work which makes reference to Stephen Partridge’s works, 1984

‘Steve Partridge’, uncredited article, c.1976

Article from Studio International, 1976 ‘Video – Report by Tamara Krikorian’. Krikorian reports on two events in Glasgow – ‘Symposium: The future of video in Scotland, Event: Towards Defining an Aesthetic, Third Eye centre’. Includes information on ‘Installation 1’

Plan of Installation No 1- Third Eye Centre Glasgow 1976

Contact Sheet of Installation No 1, Third Eye Centre 1976

2 Photographs of Installation No 1

Study of British Video Installation work which makes reference to David Hall, 1984

Letter from Tamara Krikorian to Stephen Partridge regarding the use of images of ‘Monitor’ and ‘Installation no 1’ for a publication at the Third Eye Centre, 1978

Document including, from Tamara Krikorian to Steve Partridge, regarding ‘Video defining an Aesthetic’, Third Eye Centre, 1977

Article from Studio International, 1976 – Stephen Partridge discusses the process of video, with information on his works ‘Interlace’, ‘Snow Scale’ and his installation No1 at Third Eye Centre Glasgow and 8x8x8 at Tate Britain

Annalogue: The Video Collection’ – artist information leaflet detailing biography and available works