Going Around in Circles
Nancy Holt
1973 | 00:15:15 | United States | English | B&W | Mono | 4:3 | Video
Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tags: Body, Environment, Landscape, Performance
Going Around In Circles continues Holt's interest in perception and point of view. A board with five circular holes is placed in front of the camera. The holes are covered and uncovered to reveal five people enacting a set of activities that involves walking between five spots and turning in circles. A discussion takes place between the artist and several of the "performers" which addresses the various physicalities of the action: the experience of being on the ground, watching the actions take place through the prop, and through the playback monitor, as well as notions of scale, and the chance happenings that take place within any system.
Copyright Holt/Smithson Foundation.
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