A Situation Envisaged: The Rite
- Date of creation : 1980
- Country : United Kingdom
- Artist - Author : David Hall
Description
"Sixteen domestic TV receivers are arranged in a circle; each facing away from the viewer into the enclosed space; each playing a different TV channel from the next.. A videotape playing on a revolving monitor is glimpsed at the center through small gaps.. each so fine that vision is restricted.. suggesting an attempt to assemble information coherently as the viewer moves from one to the next. In doing so, the continuum is broken. Expectations of narrative progression are both implied and rejected.. sometimes phasing (by coincidence) with the movements 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, from notes for the exhibition, 1980.) (Source [expired], website, Rewind)
Additional Informations
"Requirements: 16 identical TV sets, 1 monitor, 1 U-matic cassette or DVD player, electric turntable, custom-built circular plinth." (Source [expired], website, Rewind)
A Situation Envisioned: The Rite poster. (Source, pdf, Rewind website)
A Situation Envisioned: The Rite installation drawings. (Source, pdf, Rewind website)
Plan drawing of A Situation Envisaged: The Rite, video installation. (Source [expired], website, Rewind)
Photograph of A Situation Envisaged: The Rite, video installation. (Source [expired], website, Rewind)
Presentation place
- South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, Angleterre, 1980.
- Type : installation
- Format : 1/2” VTR
- Place of production : South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, England 1980.
Publications and Periodicals which reference the work
- Bettina Gruber & Maria Vedder, Kunst und Video, Dumont Buchverlag, Köln, 1983. (Source, pdf, Rewind)
- Tamara Krikorian, "Video Installations in Britain", London Video Arts Catalogue, 1984. (Source, pdf, Rewind)
- Michael O'Pray, "Declarations of Independance: Shows, Schisms & Modernisms", BFI Monthly Film Bulletin, February 1988. (Source, pdf, Rewind)
- Stephen Partridge & Sean Cubitt (eds.), REWIND| British Artists' Video in the 1970s & 1980s, John Libbey Publishing, East barnet, Herts, 2012.