Video Installation artists By Rhian Norman

Spartacus Chetwynd

About her works Her pieces celebrate occasions in cultural history that exemplify extremist behavior and belief. She is best known for her reworking's of iconic moments from cultural history in deliberately amateurish and improvisatory performances. She likes to make her works stand out from the rest and she is not afraid to do so.

About Hermitos Children, the pilot episode About For this particular interaction she used 32 flat screens, 8 headphones some bean bags. With the use of colours and sound as well.

About the installation piece. The particular installation that I looked at of hers I think is a very interesting and innovative way of showcasing a piece of work. I like the way that she splits the image/ video on to so many screens and I believe this just shows and empathises just how life can go in so many ways and so connects to the title of the piece, Hermitos Children, because as children your life can change course so easily and you can end up doing something that you would never have thought you would have. I also like the way that you are given bean bags to sit on while you watch, this helps the audience to relax more I believe and so there attention is more on the work then on how there legs are starting to feel standing up watching it for a prolonged amount of time. I do not like the idea of having to watch it with headphones though but without being there physically to look at it I would not know if it helps add to the piece having headphones or not.

Shigeko kubota

About her works She is a Japanese-born video artist, sculptor and avant-garde performance artist. She currently lives in New York. Her career was at its most prominent in the 1960s and 1970s. DIY is very prominent within her works as she tends to build sculptures to hold her video installations .

A few of her work pieces of wiki. Video Poem - In Video Poem (1976), Kubota’s self-portrait is displayed on a small monitor that viewers can see through a vulva shaped opening of a purple bag. A fan, placed inside the bag to keep the equipment cool, added pulsating movements. The bag had been given to her by her first boyfriend, Takehisa Kosugi, whom she used to support by working three jobs. Video Poem challenges male authority by her use of her ex- boyfriend’s bag. River, 1979-1981- Consists of three monitors suspended screen-down over a crescent shaped metal structure filled with water. The videotapes playing on the monitors reflect in the water and the structure.[21] It was first shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

About "Duchampiana", 1977 About Has a strong DIY feel to it, made as a sculptural piece to hold screens so she can show her videos.

About the installation piece. I like the piece of work because I like how she has placed the screens in the stair case. They all seem to be centred and of the same size, I think that this would be a very interesting piece to view at a art gallery as it seems to challenge you view on such a daily object as a stair case. I like the simplicity of the installation but in some cases it could seem like a very simple easy thing to put together that anyone could do but I am sure that the video helps add to the astatic of the object and vice versa.