Pieces I Never Did
Creator:
David CritchleyContributor(s):
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At various points - camerawork, studio or performance assistance, advice and support from: Alison Winckle, Keith Frake, George Saxon, Ian Bourne, Michael Fitzsimmons, David Trayner, Laura Knight, Helen Chadwick, Susie Freeman, Val Jones
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This work is part of the rewind archive.
Duration: 35mins 17secs (Single Screen Version)31mins 3secs (3 Screen Version)
Year: 1978/79 three screen version 1979 re-worked as a single screen version2007 single screen re-edited to 3 screen2007 3 screen composite version
Original formats:U-matic Lo Band
Media types:Video
Type of work:3 Screen Video presentation + Single Screen Videotape
Funding source: Self / State
First exhibited: London Video Arts at The Acme Gallery, London (Feb '79)
Technical details: Mainly shot in and around the RCA - Edited at Fantasy Factory
Other known Screenings:
1979
Video Roma, Italy
The Acme Gallery, London, (Aug ’79)
European Video, die Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
British Video, The Kitchen, New York, USA
Luton Arts Centre
Maidstone, Brighton and Coventry Schools of Art1980
British Video, Teatr Studio, Warsaw, Poland
The Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
Bracknell Video Festival, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire
The New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
Gallery Cavallino, Venice
De Appel Gallery, Amsterdam
ILAC, Lyon, France
Dzeikanka Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Coventry, Sheffield, Wolverhampton and Reading Schools of Art1981
Tate Gallery, London
Pink Noise Studio, Oakland, California, USA
And/Or Gallery, Seattle, USA
PRIM Video, Montreal, Canada
Ontario School of Art, Toronto, Canada
Vestlandets Kunstakademie, Bergen, Norway
Academie of Art, Geneva, Switzerland
The London Musicians Collective, London
Spacex Gallery, Exeter
The Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Camberwell School of Art1982
Unge Kunsgeres Samfund, Oslo, Norway
LVA at the AIR Gallery, London
London Film Makers Co-op Summer Show, London
Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh Festival
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Ipswich Film Co-op
Norwich Film Co-op
Luton Arts Centre
Sheffield, Maidstone, Hull, Wolverhampton and Coventry Schools of Art
Central School of Art, London
British Council Touring Exhibition the Far East and South America1983
Spectro Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
BracknellVideo Festival, Berkshire
Video 33, Luton Arts Centre
Brighton Film and Video Workshop
Tour of Australian venues curated by John Dovey1987
Gen Lock, UK Touring Exhibition, curated by London Video Arts2004
John Hansard Gallery,University of Southampton
Experiments in Moving Image The Old Lumiere Cinema, London2005
The Rio Cinema, London for The Centre of Attention -
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Quotes:
“Critchley’s ‘Pieces I Never Did’ (1979), another conceptual dig at conceptualism, includes Critchley describing a series of potential conceptual works to the camera, his delivery being periodically interrupted by one such work in which he shouts ‘Shut Up’ to the camera (and himself) at maximum volume, until his voice gives out.” David Curtis, A History of Artists’ Film and Video in Britain. British Film Institute, 2007.
“David Critchley’s Pieces I Never Did (1979) also explores issues raised through live performance, chronicling a series of short works he had planned but never previously got around to making. Critchley (1953-, UK) addresses his audience directly, explaining and then restaging the works especially for the camera. Critchley made a number of significant video works during the mid- to late 1970s drawing on his background in live performance to develop a series of single screen video works that explored the relationship between the video camera/recorder and the performer and performance and recording spaces, including Static Acceleration (1976) and Zeno Meets Zero (1975).” Chris Meigh-Andrews, A History of Video Art, The Development of Form and Function. Berg, 2006.
