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Work Type:video installation
Date of work:1998
Materials:medium: television cathode ray tube

Measurements:height: 95 cm

width: 40 cm

depth: 40 cm

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:object, television, cosmos
Description:
Nick Laessing presents two mechanised sculptures. While both are characterised by instability and movement, each creates a unique set of effects and meanings. 1000RPM TV functions only when activated. At a certain moment its television tube, seemingly obsolete, turns from sculptural object into a video spectacle of the planetary cosmos. In the second work a small modern chandelier, domestic and decorous, trembles very slightly, from time to time, hinting at earthquakes and unpredictable disasters.
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Source:From a series of conversations held at different times between Keith Tyson, Sacha Craddock and Simon Morrissey and between Susan Hiller, Sacha Craddock and Des Lawrence. “New Contemporaries 99”, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, 1999.
Date of source:1999