Pcock

2011

Video

2-min 30s.

Description:

The strutting display of a peacock is both spectacular and confronting. in a public nature reserve, with a peahen in attendance, the sounds of other animals and human activity has the effect of undercutting the image of authority presented by the animal; it is as if the spectacle subsumes the purpose.

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The screen image is presented following a sequence of procedures initiated by a fragment of a video recording made on Betamax; captured into the computer and processed in a way reminiscent of the ceramicists of the East, the 'all-seeing eye' of the ancients stares out of the screen as the viewer's gaze is distanced by the approximation of the image to that tradition.

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