- Venue
- Street Level Photoworks
- Starts
- Monday, March 16, 2009
- Ends
- Saturday, March 21, 2009
- Address
- Street Level Photoworks 48 King Street (1st floor) Glasgow G1 5QT
- Location
- Scotland
Scratch Video16-21 March 2009, 12 till 5pm.FREE.Scratch Video was a British video art movement that emerged in the 1980s. It was characterised by the use of found footage and challenged many of the established conventions of broadcast television. Arising out of a turbulent decade that saw amongst other things the miners take on the Thatcher government of the day, Scratch was an appropriate and accessible visual expression for dealing critically and directly with the impact of mass communications on society. These videos tended to critique the institutions making broadcast videos, specifically those commercialised for young audiences, such as MTV. It represented a crossover between art and club culture, and Scratch was a common feature in many of London’s coolest nightclubs, including the Ambulance Station, the Fridge and Brixton’s Ritzy Cinema.Today Scratch Video continues to be a popular historical form, maintaining a cult following in contemporary art video circles. For these screenings, Street Level have teamed up with Rewind to bring to Glasgow a selection of some of the groundbreaking works in this genre, including the Gorilla Tapes, the Duvet Brothers and George Barber. Other artists include John Maybury, Kim Flitcroft & Sandra Goldbacher, Jeffrey Hinton, John Scarlett-Davis, Akiko Hada & Holger Hiller, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Nick CopeScratch Video is one of a number of collaborations between Street Level Photoworks and Rewind.
