State of Division
- Date of creation : 1979
- Country : United Kingdom
- Technical characteristic : Black & white
- Artist - Author : Mick Hartney
Description
“The basic idea behind state of division was that a videotape would be found on a bus and played by the finder. It would be found to contain the rambling statement of a character aware of himself only as a video recording. In fact the tape was an attempt to deal in a state of tranquility with the experience of period of clinical depression I had had some years before. As I was no longer affected by these feelings, I felt free to deal with them with a degree of humour. The work does seem to have hit a variety of different nerves in its audiences perhaps because of the apparently raw, confessional nature of the script.” Mick Hartney March 2008. (Source, website, Rewind)
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