Video

Box Concert

1974, 05:00 minutes, B&W, English

TAPECODE 061.00

Suzy Lake lifts a long, thin, rectangular box from its position along the ground to a position on top of the table in a simple movement which marks the horizontal and vertical planes of the monitor as well as establishing perspective and depth of field within the two-dimensional surface. The action, recorded in her studio, is one of translating the concepts of minimalist music into an equivalent visual language. The one-minute action is edited to repeat over a period of five minutes and the five-minute tape in turn was originally played in a continuous loop.

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Critical Writing

Self-Inventions: The Photography of Suzy Lake
by Daniel Baird. Border Crossings, Fall 2011, v. 30, no. 3.
Video Primer: A Series of 5 Video Programs
by Michelle Jacques. Video Primer, 2001. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2001.
First-generation Video
by Carole Corbeil. The Globe and Mail, June 14, 1988.
First-generation video
by Carole Corbeil. The Globe and Mail, June 14, 1986.
Introduction
by Renee Baert. Vintage Video: Early Canadian Video Art to 1974, 1986. Toronto: Artculture Resource Centre, 1986.