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EMILY HEATH    

Sat 17 Feb 2001

Crawls with my video camera

Noon 

(video with live performance)

Crawl from Central Stn, 

Gordon St Glasgow.

  Video 13.30 till 18.00
Bay 5

 

 

 

 

 

This crawl is to be a continuation of a series of performance and video works through which I have been dealing with notions of embodiment. The videos create an experience for the viewer in which they become conscious of their own body. I have made these works by crawling through an area with a video camera in my hand. As I struggle to drag my body along the ground, pulling with my elbows and pushing with my knees, the camera records the bumping movement and my exasperation and desperation as I become more exhausted; the duration is determined either by the length of the tape or a physical obstruction. For the NRLA the crawl will start from the end of a platform in Central Station down to the Arches where a video of the crawl will be screened.