In today’s media climate, everyone has some familiarity with high quality TV. One of the significant recent developments in television has been the rise of the serial program – those so-called “bingeable” shows that need to be followed in sequence since they tell an ongoing, gradually developing story.
In today’s media climate, everyone has some familiarity with high quality TV. One of the significant recent developments in television has been the rise of the serial program – those so-called “bingeable” shows that need to be followed in sequence since they tell an ongoing, gradually developing story. This structure has allowed television to reach new heights of character development and plot sophistication such that it often rivals novels and cinema in terms of its degree of artistic depth. Most people have a favorite TV show, and for many it’s a serial program. So for this assignment, you will pushed toward more experimental forms. Below is a list of videos. Watch them all. Each one is relatively short.
Assignment
If the links below don’t connect you, just look them up by title and name of the artist.+-
Peter Campus, Three Transitions: see the textbook for a brief discussion of this piece. https://vimeo.com/21140656Links to an external site.
Bill Viola, Ascension: this 2000 piece by celebrated video artist, Bill Viola, is like many of his works, in being both deceptively simple and visually arresting. https://thewadsworth.org/exhibitions/past/bill-viola-ascension/Links to an external site.
Pipilotti Rist, Ever Is over All: Rist’s 1997 piece was an installation as well as a video. For a look at the video click the first link, to see how the installation looked in the gallery, click the second link. Rist’s striking scene, both shocking and funny, was quoted in a 2016 Beyoncé video.
Pipilotti Rist – Ever is Over AllLinks to an external site.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81191Links to an external site.
Devo, Jocko Homo: beginning as art students, the band Devo were early experimenters with video as an art form. In this 1976 collaboration with Chuck Statler they explored a self-created mythology of devolution, or human regression into lesser types of beings. It is important to note that with works like this, Devo was not only a pioneer of the emerging punk/new wave in music, but were also pioneers of the music video which in 1976 was not yet an established form.
Francis Alys and Rafael Ortega, Re-Enactment: in 2000, Ortega filmed Alys going into a store in Mexico City, buying a gun, and then walking the streets, openly brandishing the weapon until eventually being apprehended by police. This un-staged scene was afterwards repeated, this time with the participation of the police department. The work shows the original incident and its reenactment, side by side. http://francisalys.com/re-enactment/Links to an external site.
After viewing the above works, choose one that interests you, and write a response to it. You may use television programming as a comparison, or reference point, but keep in mind, this is not for you to compare your preferences between video art and television, but rather is a way for you to see how video art differs in its intent and approach. None of the videos above are narrative (i.e. none has any clear storyline) but all of the videos have a point they are making, a meaning that they are trying to communicate. Focus on your chosen video, watching it several times and remaining attentive to what seems to be happening in the work.
First, describe the video you have chosen, explaining what it shows and listing the details that seem most important to you. Imagine you were trying to describe it to a friend who had never seen it.
Second, try to explain it. Explain how the possibilities of moving images can communicate to us. For instance, what does the video seem to be saying? What point is it trying to make? What issues does it want you to think about? Is it urging you to see something in a new way?
Third, we all know television; we understand how to watch it. How does this piece challenge our viewing experience? What does it ask of us that television usually does not?
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