Monday 4 October 2010

Land Gauge


Recently I found this version of my video Land GaugeLand Gauge has appeared in various forms and contexts. It first appeared in January 2007 as Direct Language 4.0 on my original Direct Language videoblog.  That version used the sound as recorded with the image although the whole thing is slowed down. In 2008 I made a version for One Minute Volume 2 where it is accompanied by 60/60 a sound piece made when I was at art college in 1981, which was also on the Snatch 3 compilation.  For this version I sped the original 60/60 up so that it would fit within the 60 second parameter of the project.  Later that year it was in the Transcentric show, where it was projected on a small raised platform screen on the floor so that one looked down onto it, replicating the original point of view, as a silent 4 minute loop.  This version was made while preparing the video for Transcentric and compiles several parts of the original sequence, into a kind of extended mix as a continuous 10 minute video, it too is silent. 

3 comments:

SAM RENSEIW said...

this piece remains an ever fascinating exploit of recording, an almost live bout of flying... it conveys the sublime in rather (meta)physical ways and retains the obscure magic of the recording's actual origins... a seminal land gauge: great to see it looped, extended, and re-posted.

Steven Ball said...

thank you Sam, I was thinking of you when I posted :)

SAM RENSEIW said...

yes, I recall that I was rather impressed by this superb piece...

(more landscaping on the next patafilm-voodle, btw)