Overview at night
States of Demise
2011
2011
Shunpike
Seattle Office of Arts and Culture
S Jackson Street and 7th Avenue S
Seattle, WA
Seattle Office of Arts and Culture
S Jackson Street and 7th Avenue S
Seattle, WA
This video installation consisted of cathode ray tube televisions (TVs), videocassette recorders (VCRs), and a video camera. This period is marked by the abundant availability of these resources. A group of TVs was paired with VCRs and arranged together. Each pairing was loaded with identical recordings on a video home system (VHS) cassette tape and played back asynchronously. The repeating video consists of 50 individual images, each photograph containing a portion of a phrase that reflects the current values of American society, fading into one another while the dissolved flag remains a constant fixture. These statements on the state of society were crowdsourced through social media platforms. A video camera was set up for a live video feed, with no audio, to another TV set apart from the grouping. The video camera captured viewers as they watched the grouping of TVs and VCRs while the video repeated itself.
Detail
1 of 50 still images from the video