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Series: New Television
Program: New Television
Episode: 313 (1987)
Date: 1984-01-01
Subject: Landscape
People: Abramovic, Marina; Laysiepen, Uwe E.
Copyright Holder: Uwe E. Laysiepen and Marina Abramovic
Clip Description
In this work, written and directed by Uwe E. Laysiepen and Marina Abramovic, a camera pans across the rubble of a Sicilian landscape, moving in and out of toppled columns and large bricks like a searching eye. In the background, a woman's voice melodically (almost hypnotically) recites text in Italian. Occasionally we see gatherings of men standing in stillness amidst the ruins. The scene moves to the interior of a house, where women are seated in silence in a parlor and around a large table. The camera continues to "wander" through the surroundings, as if seeking something. The work plays with the concepts of exterior and interior and of masculine and feminine.
The work is just under 16 minutes in length and was broadcast as a segment of episode 313 (1987) of "New Television."
Series Description
The New Television Workshop originated at WGBH, a public broadcasting station in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1974 to support the creation and development of experimental video art. This experimental programming included dance, drama, music, performance and visual arts on video and film. As early as 1968, WGBH was committed to the development of video art through residency programs, with artists such as Nam June Paik, and the "Rockefeller Artists-in-Television" project. Many of these early works (pre-1974) were broadcast both locally and nationally.
As an umbrella for arts related programming, the Workshop included "Artist's Showcase, " "Frames of Reference, " "Dance for Camera, " "Poetry Breaks," and "New Television," as well as acquired arts programming. Individual works were created for "Visions," a series produced by WNET (New York), and "Alive From Off Center," a series produced by KTCA (St. Paul - Minneapolis). The Contemporary Art Television (CAT) Fund was co-founded by the Workshop and Boston's Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) in the 1980's, to commission works by video artists. In 1993 the Workshop ceased production at WGBH.
See also: http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/NTW/FA/TITLES/Terra108.HTML
