{"id":5879,"date":"2015-02-18T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T06:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=5879"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T04:45:38","slug":"on-robin-deacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2015\/02\/18\/on-robin-deacon\/","title":{"rendered":"On Robin Deacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am delighted that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\">Conversations at the Edge<\/a> will be opening with my fellow Englishman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robindeacon.com\/\">Robin Deacon<\/a>&#8216;s multimedia performance <i>White Balance: A History of Video\u00a0<\/i>this Thursday, February 19th at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siskelfilmcenter.org\/\">Gene Siskel Film Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>White Balance <\/em>is a\u00a0performance that draws on Deacon&#8217;s journalistic and documentary approaches to art making. Throughout the performance\u00a0he engages with different outmoded forms of video technology in an effort to explore how the perception of memory and time are constructed through the medium of moving image. Deacon&#8217;s performance reveals the \u201cghosts in the machine,\u201d those haunting specters with which we engage when viewing the ambient images of early video: artist documentation, family holidays, and television broadcasts. We see his pet dog. He speaks to us of a childhood in his native England. Time is demonstrated to be as malleable and ever-shifting as the degrading polymeric material to which it has been committed, while technological developments become temporal markers for our own memories. As viewers, we realize that we use these anachronistic vessels as compasses to orient our individual and collective memories. Deacon states during a performance in which time seems to be ever expanding, \u201cEverything is out of its place. Everything is out of its time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgewilliamprice.com\/\">George William Price<\/a> is an arts administrator and scholar specializing in alternative forms of moving image media. He is the program assistant for Conversations at the Edge at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is\u00a0a candidate for a Masters in Arts Administration and Policy (exp. 2015).<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5882\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/02\/DSC8524-copy-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5882 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/02\/DSC8524-copy-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Robin Deacon, performance shot from White Balance: A History of Video, 2013. Courtesy of the artist. \" width=\"450\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/02\/DSC8524-copy-1-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/02\/DSC8524-copy-1-1-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin Deacon, performance shot from White Balance: A History of Video, 2013. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am delighted that Conversations at the Edge will be opening with my fellow Englishman Robin Deacon&#8216;s multimedia performance White Balance: A History of Video\u00a0this Thursday, February 19th at the Gene Siskel Film Center. White Balance is a\u00a0performance that draws on Deacon&#8217;s journalistic and documentary approaches to art making. 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