OUR STIFFS (7 video loops, two walls installation)
Tamar Getter 2004-2022 new version
CDA Holon, July 2022 | Associate Curator, Avital Barak
Computer painting, text, animation and editing: Tamar Getter
Assisting editing: Avi Mograbi
1. When Bulldozer
2. Blotted Out Hooligans
3. Maminka
4. Hebron - Gola-Goola
5. Stone
6. Lady of Kinnereth
7. Star
• "Our Stiffs" consist of seven independent sequences playing each, and
all seven together, in a loop.
• The video deals in several ways with the static, non-developed state of the
single frame; the still image.
• The source materials are films, paintings, photographs, and graphic works.
The binding of the seven sequences is due to the primitive animation applied
in their making. Tiny motion sequences, analyzed and processed as though
they were a group of single paintings, are multiplied to be re-joined in a new,
different pseudo-motion sequence.
• Accelerated until the picture flickers, or alternately, by slowing it down, to the
point of freeze image, these re-made sequences, fast or slow, are made to be
perceived in the blink of an eye and viewed in terms of a single unified picture,
easy like a poster on the highway.
• This readability is clashed head-on by sentences and words designed into them.
• Either you see the images and cannot read the text, or you read it and cannot see
the image.
• The video work occurs in this gap between the readable and the not readable. Only
a prolonged gaze into each loop enables us to identify and take in both.
• The color and overall design of the seven sequences relate to familiar
characteristics of propaganda ads of the 1950s.
Text:
1. When Bulldozer
When bulldozer gets close
The soil it fronts
Reverses
As you front it
Piles of earth
Pull you
And you fall
When on the pile top
Keep your balance
By touching the brim
Of the bulldozer bucket
You will have a few seconds
To jump sideward
To escape
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