Golden Voyage

1973
Country: USA
Duration: 26 mins
Colour,
Sound: sound

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For Golden Voyage (1973), the Vasulkas were inspired by Magrittes painting The Golden Legend (1958), which depicts a dream world merging landscape and still life. Magrittes pictorial approach squares perfectly with the formal concerns of the Vasulkas , who have sought to create a syntax for collage that is specific to video. Unlike photographic collage in which contrasting elements are assembled on a shared surface, electronic collage relies on the keying principle. To add an element, a zone from the background is replaced with one or more secondary video sources that still unfold separately. – Fondation Langlois

More works by Private: Steina & Woody Vasulka

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