Waterwork
- Date of creation : 1976
- Country : United Kingdom
- Artist - Author : David Hall
Description
"A video camera is suspended from the ceiling, its lens pointing down. Directly below is a linked monitor on its back, facing up. The monitor is encased on all sides in a metal box, the top is open. Above it is a glass tank, filled with colored water or oil.
The viewer, on looking into the tank sees him/herself face to face in the fluid. Simultaneously another image is seen on the monitor below - the back of his/her head, looking into the tank." (Source [expired], website, Rewind)
Additional Informations
"Requirements: 1 monitor, 1 video camera, 1 custom made glass tank, 1 custom made metal container." (Source [expired], website, Rewind)
Single camera/monitor interactive video installation
Schematic Drawing of Waterwork (Narcissus I) Installation. (Source, pdf, Rewind website)
- Type : installation
Publications and Periodicals which reference the work
- Stephen Partridge & Sean Cubitt (eds.), REWIND| British Artists' Video in the 1970s & 1980s, John Libbey Publishing, East barnet, Herts, 2012.