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Would you like to have your old, forgotten and unwatched Video 8/Hi-8 tapes resurrected and ‘reprocessed’ as part of Franklin Furnace Fund artist Robin Deacon’s nine hour performance lecture in New York this October? Please go to his homepage at www.robindeacon.com for more details as to how to contribute!

Please find much more detailed information and submission form below and feel free to circulate this also!

All the best,

Robin Deacon

Assistant Professor, Performance

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

T: 312-394-9104

E: rdeaco@saic.edu

W: www.robindeacon.com

White Balance:

A History of Video by Robin Deacon

CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF VIDEO TAPES:

In October of this year, Robin Deacon will present a new nine hour lecture project White Balance: A History of Video at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in New York. This performance uses a series of outmoded vintage video cameras (from the 1960’s onwards) to demonstrate how our ways of seeing and ways of remembering may be informed by the medium used to capture events. This notion of outmoded technology will extend to a series of meditations on discarded and forgotten videotape formats. For this aspect of the project, Robin is seeking public submissions of videocassettes in the now defunct 8mm tape format. These may include Hi8 or Video 8 formats in either PAL or NTSC formats. In particular, he is seeking footage recorded between 1990 and 1999. Required content is unspecified - these may be home movies, documentation of performances, school plays, video diaries, holidays, etc. There is no necessity for drama or spectacle. Nothing is too banal, nothing is too strange. What should connect all submitted footage is the fact that these images have not been seen since they were captured (or even at the time), and held within objects that the owner no longer has the means to play. In White Balance: A History of Video, all submitted footage will be sampled, reconfigured and represented in a lecture of imagined narratives and alternative commentaries created specially for the chosen videotapes. If you would like to have your forgotten or unseen footage “reprocessed” in the context of Robin Deacon’s lecture, please complete the form send your tape (or tapes) to either the UK or US address provided. All tapes will be returned upon completion of the project (November 2013), along with a record of how it was used within the lecture.

This project has been supported by a Franklin Furnace Fund for artists.

White Balance: A History of Video by Robin Deacon

YOUR NAME:

FORMAT: Video 8 / Hi8/PAL / NTSC (Please circle)

YEAR OF RECORDING: This may be approximate, but you may also provide a more specific date if you are able.

RETURN ADDRESS: If you do not require the return of your material, please indicate this by leaving blank.

CONTACT DETAILS (EMAIL ADDRESS/PHONE NUMBER)

PLEASE SEND TO:

Robin Deacon

1443 W Balmoral Ave, Apt 1N, Chicago IL60640, USA

DEADLINE: Tapes must arrive by Monday, September 16, 2013

Please mark your envelope White Balance. Please note all tapes are sent at your

own risk. No responsibility can be held for any losses or damage in transit.

from Franklin Furnace