Dopplegänger

Doppelgänger (1979-81) 9 minutes 12 seconds

Monochrome Videotape 1/2 inch EIAJ Format

Edition of 5 as installation with period monitor and plinth specification. Link to the video

This video work from the late 1970s has been recovered and digitised by REWIND and forms part of the REWIND Collection. This work is one of only two remaining video pieces from a series started in 1974. Three other works were exhibited at the Video Show, Serpentine Gallery in May 1975: Conflict; Emotive Progression; and iamdead. Another video work, Women Soldiers (1982, 6.00, colour U-matic) was recovered by REWIND in 2017.

Doppelgänger was made during a two-year artist’s residency at South Hill Park Art Centre. Since its recovery and restoration it has been widely exhibited as an installation work: DCA Dundee, November 2012; Careof/DOCVA, Milan, Italy, 6 November- 20 December 2012; The Stefania Miscetti Gallery – Rome 2016 16 Mar 2016 → 16 Apr 2016; Contemporary Art from Scotland, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum 17 December 2016 – 15 January 2017.