Interruption Piece

Cette pièce fait partie de la série TV Interruptions qui avait été diffusé pour la première fois à la télévision écossaise lors de l'exposition Locations Edinburgh pendant le festival d'Édimbourg du 23 aoüt au 10 septembre 1971 à Édimbourg.

"..we see a TV cabinet burning.. periodically a voice calls out 'interruption'.. and there is the implication that a burning TV makes better television than most of the output to which we are subjected." (Source, Nicky Hamlyn, Film Art Phenomena, London, BFI Publishing, 2003.) (Source, cité depuis le site web Rewind)

Image from each of the 7 TV Pieces. (Source, site web Rewind)

“ ... The idea of inserting them as interruptions to regular programmes was crucial and a major influence on their content. That they appeared unannounced with no titles (two or three times a day over ten days) was essential. To get a TV company to agree to show them, and with these conditions, was a coup... “ The transmissions were a surprise, a mystery. No explanations, no excuses. Reactions were various. I viewed one piece in an old gents’ club. The TV was permanently on but the occupants were oblivious to it, reading newspapers or dozing. When the TV began to fill with water newspapers dropped, the dozing stopped. When the piece finished normal activity was resumed. When announcing to shop assitants and engineers in a local TV shop that another was about to appear they welcomed me in. When it finished I was obliged to leave quickly by the back door. I took these as positive reactions...” (David Hall, Source : 19:4:90 Television Interventions, [s.l.], Fields and Frames Productions ltd., 1990.)

Cette série a été reproposée par l'artiste en 2006 dans une installation : "These works were Initially broadcast as television interventions but subsequent single-screen gallery viewings cannot induce a sense of the original context. An alternative proposal exhibits them as a multi-faceted installation, all seven displayed at the same time, each continuously looping on seven separate monitors randomly placed in close proximity in a single space. The sound conflicts and viewers simultaneously see parts of others as they attempt to concentrate on one. This induces some confusion, as it was when they first appeared on TV, creating "difficulties" analogous to the original experience.... It has the feeling of intervention." (David Hall, 2005) (Source, cité depuis le site web Rewind)