Video Installation of Past

Video Installation of Past & Present Practitioners
Bill Viola Present Practitioner

Bill Viola is a contemporary video artist that is known for doing triptych
effects when showing his work. He takes 3 videos and showed them
placed next to each other on the screen. This made a sequence of 3
different videos putting them together to create a storyline and
relationship. His most famous piece of work that utilises this is his video
triptych of a birth, a dreaming state, and a deathbed.
This picture shows his three different video being played right next to
each other. This is an effective way use of installation as you are able to
see each of the videos at the same time as opposed to in sequence. This
allows you to notice and make more connections and cross relationships
between each of the videos as you are seeing them at the same time. You
are also able to create and see and overall storyline or common theme
more easily between each of the videos, which you may have not been
able easily notice if the videos were not installed like this.
I could use this triptych effect in my installation to show my videos. I could
use three notebooks and place them next to each other whilst each of
them are playing a different video. And therefore revealing a common
theme or overall storyline that could not be seen without having the
videos arranged in this way.
When Bill Viola first started to exhibit his video art he received a mixed
response from the mass audience that viewed his work. Some people did
not like what he was doing with one critic saying that Viola is "a master of
overblown, big-budget, crowd-pleasing, tear-jerking hocus-pocus and
religiosity". While the people that did like it tended to like it quite a bit,
with him being described as "the Rembrandt of the video age".
Douglas Gordon Past Practitioner

Douglas Gordon is a Scottish video artist that lives and works in Berlin,
Germany. His work tends to gravitate around memory and the
manipulation of time; he uses repetition in various forms throughout his
works. One of his more well-known video art installations is the 24 Hour
Psycho.
For this installation Douglas Gordon took Alfred Hitchcocks film Psycho.
He then slowed the film down to about 2 frames a second which resulted
the film lasting for exactly 24 hours. The way that he exhibited this slowed
down version of the film was using a large screen which he then projected
the film onto.
If I was to implement this kind of exhibition into my installation. Then I
could take the work that I want to exhibit and create another on that
manipulates the speed and time durations of them; making them a bit
longer and slower or shorter and faster. I could then have the original and
the manipulated time and speed version playing at the same time next to
each other. For this it would be easier to use two 2 notebooks or laptops
and headphones to show the videos as opposed to using an elongated
screen and two projectors.
Marie-Jo Lafontaine Past Practitioner

Marie-Jo Lafontaine is a Belgian video artist that uses lots of videos that
plays the same video at the same time, and uses them to create a video
sculpture. An example of this would be Marie-Jo Lafontaines video
installation Les larmes dacier also known as Tears Of Steel.
This is a video sculpture using multiple screens each of them synchronised

and showing the same video of athletic men training their muscles. Marie
used 26 monitors, 6 laser disk and 6 laser disk players and placed these
inside of a black box sculpture, which is a rough resemblance of the men
that the videos are showing.
If I was to implement this style of installation into my own then I would
take my videos and put them into a set or sculpture designed around a
specific object or person that is within the video. For example I could
create a set or sculpture around a murder or murder weapon, then place
my horror film that includes this into the set/sculpture.
The video installation Les Larmes Dacier, also had a very good impact on
the audience. It gained Marie-Jo Lafontaine widespread recognition at the
1987 Documenta 8. After this her video art was continually shown
internationally until 1990.

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Video Installation of Past & Present Practitioners

Bill Viola Present Practitioner

Douglas Gordon Past Practitioner

Marie-Jo Lafontaine Past Practitioner

This is a video sculpture using multiple screens each of them synchronised

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