David Askevold: A Video Retrospective

David Askevold: A Video Retrospective

Nova Scotia Fires: "Materials: gasoline, oil, matches and rock & sand locations on the South Shore of NS. I poured a mixture of gasoline and oil on various stone configurations and along some beaches, lit them and filmed the results. I composed a sound track with a small synthesizer, tuning forks & voice, processed through a home-made distortion chamber"Fill: "Fill is my first video; The monitor becomes a picture-sound box. The screen is filled by laying sheets of aluminum foil on a microphone and wrapped one at a time and then unwrapped. The audio implodes during the wrapping and explodes as the sheets are pulled away from the microphone. Besides the obvious reading of physical filling, the title also refers to filling time or a ‘filler’ between television shows"Rubber Band: "Structure: Holding a rubber band between my thumbs and forefingers, I strum it as fast as I can close to the microphone. The camera is static and runs until the S8 cartridge runs out. The sound is recorded on tape separate from the film, so the audio which sounds like a drum, slowly moves out of synch with the image"

ASKEVOLD, David

2008

DVD

English

Artist Video (V)

A84 2008 DVD

95 min.