Critical Writing Index

Listening to VTR

by Bruce Parsons

artscanada, Oct. 1973, v. 30, no. 4, pp. 27-28

Statement about two video pieces by Bruce Parsons. The piece Ear to the Line uses simultaneous tapes and strategic microphones to present two visual and aural perspectives on work. Turning the World similarly plays with perspective as the tape shows a distant figure circumscribing a large field while the audio reveals the inscrutable figure as a woman who regales the unseen cameraman with intimate anecdotes.

ITEM 1973.020 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Turning the WorldBruce Parsons

Ear to the LineBruce Parsons