The Book of Chairs: New Video Furniture
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. IX, no. 1, p. 13, September/October 1997: An Authorization: Notes towards an installation project by Jan Peacock for…
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Through the Soles of My Mother’s Feet
A four channel video installation, consisting of video of the making of ornate architectural designs, handicrafts and advertising material through the using the creator’s hands…
Plan
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. IX, no. 1, p. 8, September/October 1997: Plan is a video-based installation that provides a surreptitious vantage-point for…
Trans
Using sculptural and sound elements as well video projection, Trans takes the medieval city of Passau, Germany and Vancouver as the basis for its inquiry…
Housesitting
In the video installation Housesitting, tension between the domestic and the wild appeared in the guise of house pets. The following text is taken from Front…
Jaguar
A six channel video installation. A description of the work on the former Western Front website reads, “[b]ased on footage shot from a variety of…
Santiago Bose: Residency
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 4, p. 6, March/April 1996: Reception and video installation on Sunday, April 14 The art world…
Invisible Crowds
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 3, p. 12, January/February 1996: Over the past years Hayley Newman has produced a series of…
Henry Tsang: Residency
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 1, p. 6, September/October 1995: Once upon a time, in 1990, the Western Front Lux was…
Electronic Eve
The Electronic Eve juxtaposed photographic and video images to create a portrait of the Electronic Eve. Photographic panels depicted images of a segmented female body,…
Zainub Verjee: Residency
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VI, no. 2, p. 15, November/December 1994: Zainub is producing a video installation which will consist of four…
The Fragility of Origins
The Fragility of Origins is a multi-channel video-based installation exploring issues concerning women and their bodies in relation to art and historical practice and theoretical…
Murmur
Artist in residence. Murmur is a two-channel installation, commissioned by the IKON Gallery in Birmingham, England for the exhibition Beyond Distinction. Murmur was shot largely…
FRONT: Stories for Video
Front: Stories for Video is a two-channel video installation that was produced by the team Hewson/Walker (Australia) during a video residency in September 1991. Hewson/Walker,…
Battle of the Titans
This work investigates the relations between a mother and child. The tape was produced during a residency at the Western Front in 1990 and edited in 1992…
Reorganization Room
Three monitor video installation, representing “a transcendental service on personal re-evaluation.”
Mary-Lou
Special production. Shot primarily in Japan in 1988, the artist wondered how it was that a culture could be so pure and unified in its…
Exclusive Memory 4-9-19
A special production, originally conceived of as an installation. Its component elements, in particular a series of three edited, 60- minute videotapes, can be screened…
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