ABSTRACT
The video Untitled began as a response to Bruce Nauman's seminal multi-channel video installation Violent Incident. In Nauman's work a man and a woman are shown across 12 screens in a series of out-of sync takes, enacting and re-enacting a brutal slapstick routine. The effect, a kind of asynchronous cacophonous scratch-mix of the scene, is driven partly by the action of the performers, and partly through the simultaneous presentation, stopping and starting, playback and slowing of multiple takes of the scene over the numerous screens of the installation. Where Nauman's original installation orchestrates energy from the multiplication and multi-tracking of the scene as video, the author's interest was in the performative transformation of the action 'in real time' as the performers became more and more exhausted through repetition of the task.
