→ ↑ → – Spaces [LP] (1981, Innocent)

Robert Randall and Frank Bendinelli's "Spaces" video art suite is based on recreating in video a set of well-known Australian modernist paintings by artists like Grace Cossington Smith, John Brack and Fred Williams. In each case, Robert and Frank brought a wry tongue-in-cheek approach to utilizing the then-still-new medium of video. Their agenda was to 'translate' the paintings by importing and transposing them into the realm of chromo-key, RGB and studio lighting. 

The brief given Philip Brophy for the required music was to match these 'video paintings' with background music which could play continually without any fixed beginning or end. Philip's tracks are generally minimalist in vein, with strong traces of all key → ↑ → preferences: Muzak, disco and electronics. Robert and Frank were keen to reflect the → ↑ → aesthetic world and its punk/new-wave stylistics. The 6th video "Expressive Space" recreates in hyper-graphic mode Philip and Maria Kozic's house at the time: chock-full of Maria's artworks, her toy collection, and Philip's massive record collection -all of which were filmed and chromo-keyed into the final video. [SOURCE: PHILIPBROPHY.COM]

 

 

Label: Innocent – NON-9 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: Australia 

Released: 1981 

Style: Experimental, Avantgarde, Minimal, Minimal Wave, Soundtrack

 

Tracklist:

A1 Video Space 

A2 Color Space 

A3 Synthetic Space 

B1 Total Space 

B2 Flat Space 

B3 Expressive Space 

 

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