WEEK FOUR: PAUL SHARITS

This week we investigated the works --films, installations, sketches, scores and influences--of artist Paul Sharits and recreated a 2-projector version of his film installation Shutter Interface (1975).  The piece is actually meant of 4 projectors as you can see below in his sketch for same, and was just recently mounted at the Greene Naftali Gallery in New York.

Known as a structural filmmaker, Sharits also did some early works within the Fluxus Group ,combining film and text with his trademark biofeedback flicker techniques, such as his 5 second witty toilet paper event film Unrolling Event (1965), and his locational film  Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976) , described here by Sharits himself:   "Seizure Comparison is an attempt to orchestrate sound and light rhythms in an intimate and proportional space, an ongoing location wherein non-epileptic persons may begin to experience, under 'controlled conditions'É the majestic potentials of convulsive seizure."

read: interview with Paul Sharits, Film Culture 65-66 (1978), 

excerpts   HERE  and   HERE

I almost forgot! Hollis Frampton's   1968 "A Lecture",  performed by yrs truly. 

pdf available here