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Glow Video Installations: PORN - 2005

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Installation view: "Hidden Side of Appearance" @ Musse D'Art Contemporain. Montreal, 2005

Multi-channel DVD video installation. 15 minutes looped, silent
CRT televisions, dvd player, RF modulator, RCA cable, coaxial cables & splitters
Installation dimensions & configurations vary upon available tv's and size of exhibition space
Edition of 5 w/ 1 artist proof (1/5 Collection of Musse D'Art Contemporain, Montreal Quebec)

Part of the Glow Video Series in which I use television content, in this case a hard core porn movie, as a simple source material for reflected light installations. Series includes: Horror, Suspense, Romance, Porn, Kung-Fu & also Commercial Space which was made at a later date.

In the exhibition entitled: "horror/suspense/romance/porn/kung-fu", Kelly Mark fills YYZ’s Y gallery with the glow of fifteen television monitors. This new video-installation is part of Mark’s ongoing investigation of television as a simple source material, which in the past has included such works as Prime Time (1999) and Glow House (2001-2005). Mark has sought to capture a mere suggestion or impression of each filmic genre or style by simply recording the cast light of each of these films as they bathed her apartment walls. For "horror/suspense/romance/porn/kung-fu" Mark has produced five unique video installations, each representing one of the five different genres represented in the exhibition title. Quiet and unassuming, these works provoke the investigation of liminal modes of perception and the possibility of understanding the familiar, ambient glow of the television medium as an almost physical thing. - Greg Elgstrand (Director: YYZ Artists Outlet, Toronto)

exhibition history> (in whole or in parts)
2005 YYZ Artists Outlet (Toronto ON); 2005 Musee D'Art Contemporain (Montreal PQ); 2006 Third Space (St John NB); 2006 Associates Gallery (London UK);