ARTIST
Gary WARNER
PROVENANCE
Gary Warner Collection (Via Scanlines)
DATE
1987
RELATIONSHIPS
Solo video work
CONTEXTUAL INFO
TECHNIQUES OF PRODUCTION
IMAGERY
Image Bank, Free-to-air television sequences recorded on VHS tape – news, documentaries, B-movies – replayed on domestic TV with exaggerated color saturation – selected fragments filmed using Canon Super 8 camera – most images close-up to exaggerate image degradation, abstraction and selective details from original imagery.
Televisual “snow” patterns filmed in close-up – content-free channels – brownian noise of visual electro-static – swirling pixels – careful to get high-contrast, sharp focus patterns
Slow-motion, pause, roll-bar and other techniques of electronic image manipulation inherent in domestic av technologies used throughout to abstract, distantiate and reform.
AUDIO
Audio-cassette recordings made with Marantz stereo cassette recorder. Some use of 4-track 1/4″ reel-to-reel tape.
Korg MS10 synthesiser, toy piano, casio calculator and other noise-making objects.
Various audio recordings – BBC shortwave radio news, television soundtracks, personal electronic soundworks, video arcades, artist studios in Brisbane, parties in Sydney, computer voice synthesis.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
fragments of media recombined to create hermetic audio-visual conflation of irony, humor and pathos
take it, break it, remake it
jarring stylistic transitions, structuralist rhythms, forceful mismatching, wilful poetic disturbance
strategies of repetition, decontextualisation, metonymic inference, crypto-neologism eg “technolateral boundaryland of tv”combining and colliding self-made electronic soundwork and field recordings of street, city and video arcade games with television – david-and-goliath style
LOCI
Brisbane
MEDIA
Experimental Super 8 Film mastered to digital file
NOTES
Manipulated and processed Super 8 Film
RELEVANT ATTRIBUTION
Kindly reproduced with full permission of Gary Warner.
PERMALINK
Resistance Today (1987)