Basic Music

Date de réalisation/Date of creation
1974
Artiste - Auteur/Artist - Author
Pays/Country
Durée/Duration
00:12:35
Description

Series of 3 videos : Ruber Bland, Sweater Sweeter Dog, Seriously Sophisticated Greetings,

In ‘Ruber Band’, the artist sings while holding colored rubber bands in front of her mouth, which she plucks with her teeth, like guitar strings, then stretches until they break. Each color of rubber band corresponds to a vowel and a note.

In ‘Sweater Sweeter Dog’, the camera shoots a very close-up of Muriel Olesen's sweater with little dogs embroidered on it, which wiggle as the artist titles on her garment, "barking" in rhythm with the five vowels of the alphabet and in ‘Seriously Sophisticated Greetings’ a slow zoom out shows the artist's face in heavily saturated colors, she slowly waves her hand from right to left in front of her, successively shifting from laughter to severity.

Source: Archives FMAC, Notes pour l’élaboration de l’exposition Les pionniers de la vidéo en Suisse

Format d'origine/Original format