Commentary (1980)

Made just before Around About this work is something of a manifesto in jest against television Im a sitin viewer looking slightly up at the screen making simple gestures into the camera The mood is ambiguous as I seem to be watching a mirror covering my face reaching out to the camera obstructing my head with a harsh interrogators lamp and maybe more The image distorted through a fisheye lens gives the impression of a concave monitor as if the whole act were seen through a peephole or pinhole camera In some sense I play both sides of the screenperformer and viewer attempting to connect either way As commentary its twoway making it also a commentary on commentary