Doing My Rounds, Checking Some Rounds

This solo performance for the camera pays homage to 1970s video art, exploring how the electronic manipulation of the video signal can create a choreocinema for body and machine. Choreographic patterns melding retro moves with a minimalist aesthetic participate in a jagged, pulsing duet with the danceable beats and noisy textures of the track “Doing My Rounds, Checking Some Rounds” by Alterity Problem (Alexander Moskos and Joel Taylor). Effects were created in real-time with a raster-scan device built by Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe, accessed during a residency at the now-closed Experimental TV Center in upstate New York.

Film Maker
Pelstring, Emily
Year
2013
Country
Canada
Length
6
Language
No dialogue
Category
art & artists, body, history, media studies, Sound Art + Music, Work by Women
Genre
experimental