Mathew Reichertz & Robert Zingone  |  Minute Video
January 29 - February 24, 01
A mediated performance on January 29, 7-9 pm

From left to right: Top left shows Reichertz and Zingone in the Closet. The images and rollovers of "Tonia's Drawing" and "Sym's Drawing" are the artist labels and artworks that were seen on a monitor through the peephole of the door. On the right are some surveillance camera shots of viewers encountering the I.V. tube offering the red liquid.

Minute Video consisted of a complex and highly mediated video work taken from closed circuit surveillance cameras and a camera set up in the closet space itself, which filmed the live performance that took place on opening night. During this performance, Reichertz and Zingone locked themselves in the Closet space and proceeded to film themselves and samples of artwork taken from the local community, as well as those watching the performance through a peephole installed in the Closet door, and those brave enough to sample the red liquid which travelled along an I.V. tube which emerged from the Closet. For the duration of the exhibition one could view the video footage of this performance through the peephole in the Closet door.

During the opening performance, both artists were inside the Closet. Viewers could look through a peephole and see activity which appeared to be happening inside. It was ambiguous as to what was happening inside because on the other side of the peephole was a television monitor relaying live recorded footage of Zingone holding art objects and labels in front of another video camera inside the closet. Reichertz was there to "release" the red liquid through the IV tube, which ran out of the closet, along the walls to a copper pole. A small pair of scissors hung from a hook on the pole, inviting viewers to "taste test" the red liquid from the IV tube and cut off the end of the tube for sanitary reasons.

The artists' intentions were to create a heavily mediated experience of viewing and making art, where the definitions between viewing and making could no longer be easily separated.

From left to right: A shot of a monitor that was placed inside the utility sink in the small open area outside the Closet (the sink is next to the Closet). It played footage from the surveillance camera of people sucking the red liquid from the I.V. tube and themselves watching, simultaneously. To the right is a picture of the I.V. tube which stretched from the Closet to the surveillance camera. The camera was on the wall opposite to the sink and Closet.