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TE2/1977/3

Michael Craig-Martin – Exhibition Installation 1977 (Part 2)

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: 32 min, 26 sec

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Exhibition installation. Begins with a cut and zoom that reveals an elongated gallery space being filmed with a handheld camera. There is a neon-lit arrow on the opposite wall. Two men are conversing and installing parts of an exhibition as the camera pans, zooms, and is carried about the room. There are sounds of construction, indiscernible conversation, and whistling as the camera continues to move around the gallery space. The focus of this footage appears to be 3 men installing a small, box-like wooden structure. The shot is not continuous and is interrupted at intervals by cutting to different parts of the room to focus on aspects of the installation. The middle of the film seems to be shot from above, perhaps from the top of a ladder, and looking down at the construction within the gallery space. Ends with a brief cut and zoom in on a man in a white shirt installing a four-part wall installation. As he drags a pencil along the top of the installation, the footage cuts.