The Situation Envisaged II

Description

“Eight domestic TV receivers are placed side by side at eye level on a wall-to-wall support in a quarter-circle across the corner of a room. Each is facing into the enclosed space and away from the viewer, and each is tuned to a different TV channel from the next.The viewer hears a cacophany of sound, and sees only an ever-changing projected glow beyond and above the line of TV sets. On approaching the installation, the screen of a video monitor is glimpsed through a small gap between each alternate set. It is playing a videotape, the content of which is difficult to decipher since the gap restricts the visual field to a narrow vertical section of the screen. The four possible viewpoints each offer a different segment -suggesting the assembly of coherent information only as the viewer moves from viewpoint to viewpoint. In doing so the tape time continuum is broken - expectations of a narrative progression are both implied and rejected - sometimes phasing by coincidence with the movement of the viewer, sometimes not. Fragments seen are of private ritual.. The work confronts issues of power and the individual; the public and the private; the viewer and the viewed...” David Hall, 1978. (Source 1 [expired], website, Rewind; Source 2, pdf, Rewind)

Presentation place

- Video Installation Show, Air Gallery, Londres, 11 - 29 janvier 1983. (Source, pdf, site web Rewind)

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.

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