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Categories: Video
Relevant passages:
Dieter Daniels «Television-Art or anti-art?
Conflict and cooperation between the avant-garde and the mass media in the 1960s and 1970s»
David Hall
«TV Interruptions: 7 TV Pieces»
«Often I attempted to interface reality and image, apparatus and illusion – the spatio/temporal ambiguities of the medium. In one a water tap appears in the top corner of the blank screen. the tap is turned on and the cathode ray tube ‘fills with water’. The tap is removed. The water is drained out, this time with the water line obliquely inclined to the expected horizontal. The screen is again blank – normal service is resumed, and the illusion restored.» (David Hall) These video studies conceptually pioneered the art of television interruption and were broadcast on Scottish television in 1971 without explanation. „The project was to make ten pieces for broadcast by Scottish TV unannounced and uncredited – a total surprise and mystery. Later I chose seven, '7 TV Pieces' for distribution.“
The pieces include a.o. »Burning TV« (1st - 2.20secs), »Tap« (3rd piece - 3.31secs), »Street« (6th - 2.44secs), »Two Figures«
(7th - 3.12secs)
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