video still uploading: only at 61%…

there are themes nonetheless, below, should you care to suss them out, meanwhile. and not only in terms of musical themes. rainbows, gladiators, vietnam, seasons, might be hints at various themes below. not to mention the pathos in the image above.

and…or, at least ‘inspired’ by…

 Else Torp and Christopher Bowers

 

published by tate modern in the book: Expanded Cinema: Art/Performance/Film, edited by A. L. Rees, Duncan White, Steven Ball and David Curtis:

the following link leads to a 3o minute talk at Tate Modern on VanDerBeek’s work, by mark bartlett:

http://www.rewind.ac.uk/expanded/Narrative/Tate_Doc_Session_1-_MB.html

and, if anyone is interested in VanDerBeek, then they can consult the special issue of animation: an interdisciplinary journal, edited by bartlett on VanDerBeek, the first to give VanDerBeek any international attention. which led to the quagmire of the exhibition of his work at MIT and CAM, which would never have happened without bartlett’s research. documentation of that to follow.

meanwhile: a few images from the ‘negotiating table’: 1993, headlands center for the arts:

 

https://vimeo.com/196802047

 

click on the following to take you there:

webcamograph sequence 2: internal sequencing

recalibration 1

demockery: see LFH below and other refrains [michael s. moore] and other bulldozers

a music-intervention into the spectacle

a cartesian meditation