Thursday, September 27, 2012

speaking of vhs . . .

I came across these two Australian artists Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, who make collaborative work.




This Piece is called 'Life Span' 
Offsite Australian submission for the 53rd Venice Biennale
Installation view, 2009. 175, 218 VHS video cassettes are arranged to form a solid block in the deconsecrated chapel of a former nunnery. The combined running time of these cassettes, if played consecutively, would be 60.1 years, the average human life span in 1976 – the year that the VHS was released.






'Par Avion'
Installation view, 2011, Cessna 172, deconstructed and airmailed from Roma to San Francisco. 







'Drunken Clarity'
Installation view, 2011, broken beer bottles, putty, 24 carat gold, gum arabic.




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