QUARKS
Video: 8min Peter d’Agostino © 1980
QUARKS is a rigorous analysis of how television functions. Structured in a series of thirty-second intervals, three layers of information -sound, image and written texts - are ironically juxtaposed with TV patter. QUARKS questions the meaning of what is seen and heard on television by isolating and re-contextualizing TV sounds: a tennis play-by-play, talk shows - and juxtaposing them with incongruous visuals, such as a squash game, a blind man navigating corridors, and philosophical quotations that move across the screen like news bulletins. The term "quarks" ( which refers both to elemental particles and to "trifles" in Joyce's Finnegans Wake ) suggests a critique of the content and reception of television. – EAI.ORG
Exhibitions: 1980-85
Whitney Museum of American Art Bienniale, New York Long Beach Museum of Art, CA Video 80, San Francisco Ithaca Video Festival, Artists Showcase, WGBH-TV, Boston