Video

Come On Touch It

Ian Murray

1983, 34:00 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 174.00

Come On Touch It... is an examination of televison's mechanisms of social control, and is a study for a 24 hour TV channel. Constructed from 8 layers of visual material and 7 layers of audio information, the tape takes us through the artist's answering of a standard personality inventory. The same inventory is used by most parole officers, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists. A dense, powerful and complex work which allows the audience to consider its own relationship to the astonishing forces at work in most of the media we encounter today.

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Critical Writing

Mirror Machine: Video and Identity
by Janine Marchessault. YYZ Books, McGill University, 1995.
The New Work Show
by Victor Coleman. Vanguard, Nov. 1984, v. 13, no. 9.
The New Work Show
by B.D. Hershorn. Toronto: Litho Offset, 1984.