Resource type
Date created
2002
Authors/Contributors
Author: Clay, Allyson
Abstract
In Reading Machine, the artist is seen from a distance dropping books from the window of an apartment building. Several of the books separate from their dust jackets, which swoop behind, falling at a slower rate. The video reverses, allowing the books to return to Clay’s hands, before looping again. In installation, the video plays on a small screen, embedded into the sloping top surface of a lectern. On the shelves below are stowed several old, damaged books: The Collected Essays of Marx and Engels and others.
Name
Reading Machine Video Excerpt
Video file
Description
Collection: Walter Phillips Gallery, Imaginary Standard Distance, Banff, Alberta, 2002.Material: dvd, lcd screen, books, lectern.
Extent
dimensions variable
Rights (standard)
Copyright statement
Copyright is held by the author(s).
Scholarly level
Peer reviewed?
No
Member of collection