Relative Surfaces
- Date of creation : 1974
- Country : United Kingdom
- Duration : 00:10:00
- Technical characteristic : Black & white
- Artist - Author : David Hall
Description
"Relative Surfaces is based on the interaction between the cameraman's mirrored image and his past-time, pre-recorded image..". David Hall, 1974. (Source [expired], website, Rewind)
"Relative surfaces: Based on the iteration between two monitor screens; the one observed in the present and the recording of the same image. There is also a relationship between the mirror image of the cameraman and that of a previously recorded image. " (Emergence translation) (Source, pdf, Rewind)
Additional Informations
This video was the subject of a distribution contract by art/tapes/22, Florence, Italy signed by the artist on December 9, 1975. (Source, pdf, Rewind)
View still images from the video on Rewind's website
Presentation place
- The Video Show, Serpentine Gallery, Londres, 1 - 26 mai 1975. - Videotape by British Artists, Galleria Del Cavallino, Venise, 28 janvier - 3 février 1977. (Source, pdf, site web Rewind)
Publications and Periodicals which reference the work
- David Curtis (ed.), A Directory of British Film and Video Artists, John Libbey Media, Luton,1996.
- Stephen Partridge & Sean Cubitt (eds.), REWIND| British Artists' Video in the 1970s & 1980s, John Libbey Publishing, East barnet, Herts, 2012.
- Laura Leuzzi & Stephen Partridge (eds.), Rewind Italia: Early Video Art in Italy, John Libbey, New Barnet, 2016.