Describe Video
Editioned 1/3
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "Spring 2013 Live auction" held on Wed, May 15, 2013.
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Estimate: CAD $5,000 - $7,000
Realised: CAD $2,925
Realised: CAD $2,925
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, 2007
Rennie Collection, Vancouver
Notes:
Judy Radul's work as an artist in audio/video, installation, performance pieces and performance readings has been exhibited at numerous venues, including the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, The Banff Centre in Alberta and internationally at the Generali Foundation in Vienna and Digital Media City in Seoul. This short narrative, Describe Video, uses conventional camerawork and editing to bring the viewer to the point of view of the characters - two sighted work partners played by blind actors. Over the soundtrack of dialogue, ambient sound and music is an additional "described video" audio track, a voice-over typically used in television and movies, that attempts to translate the visual image into spoken words as an aid for the visually impaired. Radul's works are concerned with concepts of gender, the body, speech and the idea of authentic and inauthentic expression. In Describe Video, she concentrates on this latter idea, exploring the visual disconnect of her actors with their dubbed-over speech, the truth of this speech, and the dichotomy this disconnect creates.
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Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, 2007
Rennie Collection, Vancouver
Notes:
Judy Radul's work as an artist in audio/video, installation, performance pieces and performance readings has been exhibited at numerous venues, including the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, The Banff Centre in Alberta and internationally at the Generali Foundation in Vienna and Digital Media City in Seoul. This short narrative, Describe Video, uses conventional camerawork and editing to bring the viewer to the point of view of the characters - two sighted work partners played by blind actors. Over the soundtrack of dialogue, ambient sound and music is an additional "described video" audio track, a voice-over typically used in television and movies, that attempts to translate the visual image into spoken words as an aid for the visually impaired. Radul's works are concerned with concepts of gender, the body, speech and the idea of authentic and inauthentic expression. In Describe Video, she concentrates on this latter idea, exploring the visual disconnect of her actors with their dubbed-over speech, the truth of this speech, and the dichotomy this disconnect creates.
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.