Working Portraits, 1992

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Installation photo

6-channel Video Installation (occupies approximately 49′ by 98′)

40 minute cycle, audio

Collection: University of Lethbridge Art Gallery

Three lightboxes (each 6′ by 8′) with five 14″ monitors suspended in front of each lightbox, six VHS players, speakers, one switcher to run the installation. (MII videotape, re-mastered onto Digital Betacam)

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Installation photo

The installation presents twenty video portraits of night cleaners talking about their work, their hopes, dreams and disappointments. The portraits within the monitors are framed within the construction of
the larger billboard-sized video text & image of the lightboxes.

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Working Portraits – Video stills
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