Beryl Korot : Text and Commentary, Weaving / 5 Channel Video / Notations
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • black-and-white
  • 13.6 x 20 cm (closed) ; 40 x 13.6 cm. (open)
  • [4] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Beryl Korot : Text and Commentary, Weaving / 5 Channel Video / Notations

Beryl Korot

Beryl Korot : Text and Commentary, Weaving / 5 Channel Video / Notations

description

One fold announcement card published in conjunction with show held March 5 - 26, [1977].

"The video screen and the hand loom don''''t really seem meant for each other, but Beryl Korot has managed to bring them together. ‘Text and Commentary,'''' her new show at Leo Castelli, explores the relationship between the loom as ‘an ancient programming tool'''' and the programming of video works for multiple screens, and if you can''''t quite see the connection yet, have patience. Miss Korot may convince you. Her half-hour, five-screen production focuses exclusively on the weaving process—the loom as her hands manipulate it, the fibers of linen and wool and the patterns she makes as she weaves them into elegant hangings (the five she''''s produced on screen are used as a sort of entrance curtain to the actual exhibition). As her hands and feet work the loom, following a weaving ‘score,'''' a complex structure is woven on the television screen, in which first the process, then the fabric patterns are surveyed in rhythmic, constantly shifting relationships of image and scale. ‘There''''s a basic structure to video pieces as there is to cloth,'''' says Miss Korot. ‘The way cloth is composed is the way I work with multichannel TV. The thing that attracted me to the loom was its sophistication as a programming tool—it programs patterns through the placement of threads, in a numerical order that determines pattern possibilities. It''''s like the first computer on earth.'''' Now 32, Miss Korot started out as a poet, then found herself ‘surrounded by a lot of people working in video. I stopped writing—I felt I could better express things visually.'''' In 1970 she was a founder of Radical Software, a video journal, and served as its editor until 1974; last year, with the video artist Ira Schneider, she edited and compiled "Video Art," a useful survey of the current field." — Grace Glueck in New York Times, March 18, 1977

$125.00
Condition:  Good. Mailed copy with mailing marks and mailing wear including bumping to corners. Folded as issued.
[Object # 23967]