UNIT 35: Tate Modern

Tate modern video installations

1. Projection by Andrea Fraser, 2008

·     Brief explanation of what appeared on screen. 

In Fraser's piece, Projection, a lone figure is speaking on a chair in an empty room on two separate

screens as one ends the other one begins to play using a projector in the middle of the room. 

The figures differentiate between talking as a patient and a psychiatrist but the two screens

never follow the same conversation starting a new monologue when the others has ended.

Seats were placed in the middle of the two screens so the audience could feel like they were in the

conversations themselves playing the parts.

·         Audience responses to the video art.

The audience was confused at first until they watched to two screens several times but 

as they watched they noticed the pattern of the differentiating monologues and used the chairs to 

become part of the installation.

·         Reflect on your response to the video art and how it affected you as a viewer. Think about what you liked about the piece and what you found difficult or challenging.

I enjoyed how the piece was set out; instead of just putting down chairs for the audience to watch 

the chairs were placed in the middle so the audience could immerse themselves in what was happening

although it was hard to understand what was going on at first because there was no context to the

'conversations' and thus following said conversations was hard.

2. First Woman on the Moon by Aleksandra Mir, 1999

3. Blue by Derek Jarman, 1993