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TE2/1977/2

Michael Craig-Martin Exhibition Installation 1977 (Part 1)

Michael Craig-Martin RA is a contemporary conceptual artist and painter. He is noted for his fostering of the Young British Artists, many of whom he taught, and for his conceptual artwork, An Oak Tree. He is Emeritus Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths. Jal Milroy recalls the flooding in the main gallery during the installation period of this exhibition. All attempts to stem the water failed until Milroy had the idea to adopt a strategy similar to one of the main pieces on display by Craig-Martin in which four buckets are suspended on floating base. Milroy placed a bucket on a platform that could be hoisted up into the ceiling where it collected the water and could later be lowered and emptied.

Date Recorded: 1977

Length: 11 min, 42 sec

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Exhibition installation. Begins with a shot of an elongated open gallery space being filmed with a handheld camera. A quick zoom focuses in on the objects on the wall directly opposite. A pan of the room reveals a man in a white shirt moving towards and climbing onto a ladder. There are sounds of construction and installation as the camera pans the gallery space, cutting at intervals to different parts of the room to focus on aspects of the installation. There is an attempt to zoom and focus on objects in the room as the handheld camera is physically carried around the space. Ends with three men installing a pillar within the room. Cuts to and zooms in on a man in a black shirt. He is kneeling in front of and tying ropes to a set of buckets. Tracking waves and distortion abruptly ends the footage.