"Kick In The Eye is a 3-monitor installation which takes advantage of some technological and physiological phenomena.
Two monitors are arranged, on plinths or wall mounts at a height of approx 1.7m and approx 6.5m apart. The monitors are connected to a video source (e.g. DVD player) via a unit which switches the video signal successively to each monitor at two second intervals.
A third monitor is mounted centrally between monitor 1 and 2 at the same height. This monitor however is rotated 90 degrees to display in portrait rather than landscape format. The monitor is also configured to display a single vertical image (which appears as a bright white line).
The space is dark and a central viewing area is arranged centrally approximately 6m in front of monitor 3." (Source, cité depuis le site web Rewind)
"Three monitor installation with switching device" (Source, cité depuis le site web Rewind)
First Exhibited at "The White Room at the Polytechnic 1978 and then a few months later at Coventry School of Art, Media Centre, 'Events Space 3'." (Source, cité depuis le site web Rewind)
Artist's description of the installation Kick in the Eye. (Source, pdf, site web Rewind)
Artist's diagram of the installation Kick in the Eye. (Source, pdf, site web Rewind)
- The White Room, Polytechnic, Londres, 1978.
- Coventry School of Art, Media Centre, 'Events Space 3', 1978.
- Stephen Partridge & Sean Cubitt (dir.), REWIND| British Artists' Video in the 1970s & 1980s, John Libbey Publishing, East barnet, Herts, 2012.