Every Video Work from 2005–2017 2019
The sculptural work Every Video Work from 2005–2017 consists of a 2007 Verbatim 2TB hard drive that contains a collection of video works that I developed between 2005 and 2017. Similar to the concept of an aircraft ‘black box’, the work consists of the hard drive only, with all power cords and input cables removed, and invites the viewer to imagine the work contained inside it. The concept for the work was informed by Douglas Gordon’s video piece Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from About 1992 until Now (1999), a survey of 101 moving image works displayed on CRT monitors. Whereas the Gordon work requires conservation and preservation, Every Video Work from 2005–2017 is reliant upon the mental image as produced by the viewer to enable it to exist. It is open to continual regeneration and interpretation by the viewer through collaborative authorship.