Upside Down - Minutiae
by George Barber

Still from Upside Down - Minutiae
Synopsis:
Three people, strung upside down on the back of a truck attached to scaffolding are taken on a ten minute drive.
Equipped with a microphone they each describe what they see and hear. Later the participants are are interviewed by the artist who asks them a series of personal questions about their childhood and other significant events in their lives which, with hindsight, they see in a different light.
These are brought together so that the viewer not only hears the participants' immediate reactions to being hung upside -down, but also gets a sense of changes in outlook and perspective that have been brought about during the participants' lives.
Commissioned by Picture This and South West Media Development Agencyas part of Remote Sensing: Outlook and Observation in collaboration with Spacex Gallery and Prema.
Details:
| Year | 2000 |
|---|---|
| Duration | 4 minutes |
| Medium | |
| Original format | |
| Screening format | |
| Aspect ratio | |
| Audio | Yes |
| Colour / B&W | Colour |
| Screens | 1 |
Credits:
Funded by the Arts Council of England’s National Touring programme with additional financial support from South West Arts.
Screening history:
12 - 28 October 2000
Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK
19 October 2000
LUX Centre, London, UK
Prema Art Centre, Gloucestershire, UK
Artists
George Barber
A pioneer of British video art, once described in Art Monthly as ‘the Henry Ford of independent video’, George Barber was a founding
Projects
Remote Sensing
Remote sensing: outlook and observation was a project consisting of three commissioned single screen film and video works which come together under
Essays
Remote Sensing in Context
Josephine Lanyon, co-commissioner of the Remote Sensing project looks at the history of artists' film.