“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 – as distinct from words as numbers or as incidental to an action.
There was also an element of accepting and following the logic of the necessity of the performance action, rather than fitting the action to the medium. It was not ‘entertainment’ – more it was the analysis of a proposition. However, by default perhaps, in this piece a poetic element emerges especially in the first layer, then to a lesser extent in the second, and finally is lost with the addition of the third layer that completes the statement and removes any space for interpretation or creative contribution from a viewer.” David Critchley