Gary Stevens: Audience

From the collection of

Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton collects, preserves, catalogues and provides public access to its collection of films and magic lantern slides. The collection charts the rise of screen culture in the region and the nation and captures many aspects of life, work and creativity in the South East from the late 19th century to the present day. It is available for research, screenings, creative re-use and commercial access.

Gary Stevens: Audience

Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton
Brighton
1989-10
Sound

An intriguing endeavour to re-define the boundaries of performance art

This programme depicts how an artist-in-residence at Brighton Polytechnic, Gary Stevens, works with an experienced group of student performers in the run-up to a show put on at Brighton's Pavilion Theatre on the 22nd of June 1989. After some brief scenes in a workshop where Gary's ideas are discussed and worked into what will become the actual performance, we hear from the performers themselves about how Gary's methods affect their understanding of the piece. The essence of the piece is to consider the performance as an object - or a sculpture made up collectively from the performers acting as a 'single entity'. We then switch to the Pavilion Theatre in Brighton, where the performance of 'Audience' is about to take place. As the performance gets underway, Gary is heard explaining what the piece intends to convey and cites the 'practice of looking' as well as the psychological undercurrents that apply to both the performers and the audience.

University of Brighton Videotape Collection

A cohesive collection from Screen Archive South East representing the production history of a university production unit from 1977 to 2006. This collection contains educational programmes created for classroom use as well as programmes and commercial narratives that were made on behalf of local businesses, organisations and the community.

Screen Archive South East has made available from across this collection, a total of eighty four programmes from a variety of obsolete open reel 1-inch tape, U-Matic and Betacam broadcast formats. This cohesive collection represents the production history of a higher and further education based production unit, with content covering a wide range of subjects: teaching the arts and sciences, fashion shows and art exhibitions, early examples of video art and screen dance from the late 1970s to early 1980; documentaries on Sussex artists and a series of works on the institution’s commemorative and promotional history. As such, the collection documents a particular regional community and its use of videotape technology over almost a thirty-year period. The high production values in the work created by Media Services at Brighton Polytechnic later, the University of Brighton, was due to the team of independent film makers or ex-BBC technical and production staff, ensuring top quality programming for the time.

46 videos in this collection

The Glorious Dream

Moulsecomb
2003-02-18

Chelsea School of Human Movement Promo

Eastbourne
1991-02-20

Chelsea College: Student Memories

1997

Brighton Polytechnic Promo 2

Brighton
1986-03-20

Altered Image

Brighton
1987-02-17

Movement and Meaning 5: A Lesson in Gender

Eastbourne
1985-06

An Interview with Anne Seagrave

Brighton
1986-01