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LOT 012

1962 -
Canadian

Describe Video
HD video on DVD, VHS and portable hard drive, 2007
editioned 1/3
16:17 mins in,

Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000 CAD

Sold for: $2,925

Preview at: Heffel Vancouver

PROVENANCE
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, 2007
Rennie Collection, Vancouver


Judy Radul’s work as an artist in audio/video, installation, performance pieces and performance readings has been exhibited at numerous venues, including the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, The Banff Centre in Alberta and internationally at the Generali Foundation in Vienna and Digital Media City in Seoul. This short narrative, Describe Video, uses conventional camerawork and editing to bring the viewer to the point of view of the characters - two sighted work partners played by blind actors. Over the soundtrack of dialogue, ambient sound and music is an additional “described video” audio track, a voice-over typically used in television and movies, that attempts to translate the visual image into spoken words as an aid for the visually impaired. Radul’s works are concerned with concepts of gender, the body, speech and the idea of authentic and inauthentic expression. In Describe Video, she concentrates on this latter idea, exploring the visual disconnect of her actors with their dubbed-over speech, the truth of this speech, and the dichotomy this disconnect creates.



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Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000 CAD

All prices are in Canadian Dollars


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