Au Deo Vi Deo

1979
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 20 mins
B&W,
Sound: stereo
Available Format/s: DVD / Digibeta tape / SD Digital file

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The sea in motion is one of our primordial images. In ‘Au Deo / Vi Deo ‘, its continuous motion is recorded. The work relates to tide and light changes throughout a twenty-four hour time span; one hour is the equivalent of one minute on the video tape. A live camera looks again at the information, this time the images are taken from a monitor. It becomes further removed from the original as the camera is repeatedly turned off. The sound track is a live mix between the video noise and a loop that sounds like a Buddhist chant, a constant repetition of the words ‘Au Deo Vi Deo ‘.

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