Rewind, British Artists’ Video in the 1970s&1980s

John Libbey, London ISBN 9780 86196706 3

Sean Cubitt and Stephen Partridge (eds)
2 2012

I n the case of Ian breakwell, JohnHilliard and Mike leggett's collaborations recalled in leggett's chapter (6); a kind of structural economics exemplified by the destruction of unsold sculptures that challenge the monopolist position of broadcast television, as Leggett refers to it, involved a highly rational and calculated approach to destruction; it is this mocking ironic application system, pricing both methodical precision and sheer mess, that has allowed, as Leggett notes with considerable originality, the documentation to take on a new role today; the ontological question of liveliness - where precisely is the point when the ephemeral actually and terminally vanishes? It has its corollarary in the question of what and how we recall. (editors Intro)

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