installation incorporating videos and built structures, 1989“In Transit” Festival of Canterbury, Canterbury (1989) Produced for “In Transit”, an exhibition of work by Australian artists in Canterbury, Kent, UK. The site was in a disused upmarket car show room which was scheduled to be demolished. A mandatory archaeological trench had been dug....
installation incorporating videos and built structures, 1988“Ars Electronica” Bruckner Haus, Linz, Austria (1988)
(with Diane Lloyd) three monitor installation 20:00 mins, 1981The Sydney Studio (1981) A Story Story was a 3 monitor piece predicated on the fact that all analogue tape decks in the era in which this tape was made (1981) ran at slightly different speeds. The three tapes all carry identical sound...
Adelaide Festival Video (1991), 00:30 mins, Sydney/Adelaide. CVI and Abekas A64 imagery used to create an electronic ‘poster’ to accompany the print poster which I produced for the 1992 Adelaide Festival. [Peter Callas]
The Australian International Video Festival, 1991 - Video Installation Peter Callas - Our Potential Allies (1980 & 1991)
Ambient Alphabet (c of meaning) (1992), 5:16 mins, Tokyo.
Australian Video Festival Commercials (1987), 2 x 00:30 mins, Sydney. CVI imagery used as call for entries for the Australian Video Festival. [Peter Callas]
Bilderbuch fur Ernst Will (Ernst Will's Picture Book): A Euro Rebus (1990-93), 11:00 mins, Sydney.
Bon Voyage (1986), 4:35 mins, Tokyo. Produced for the theatre group Island (directed by Koharu Kisaragi) for the opening event of Seed Hall, an event space atop Seed department store in Tokyo in 1986. The imagery utilises a similar two frame animation technique elsewhere employed in the tape Double Trouble. The...
Curtain (1980), 4:00 mins, Sydney. Curtain is an early experimental work in which Callas’ physical presence is of central importance. In this work, close-ups of the artist’s face are intercut by a photograph of a night time streetscape illuminated by street lights. The filmed movement of transparent layers of lithographic film...
Double Trouble (1986), 5:23 mins, Tokyo. One of the earliest works made by Callas using a Fairlight Computer Video Instrument (CVI) processor, a pioneering compositing and special effects system he utilised regularly from the mid 1980s to early 90s. The CVI was a hybrid of video and computing technologies which enabled...
East Meets West (Sandii & the Sunsetz), (1986), 3:37 mins, Tokyo Music video produced for Sandii and the Sunsetz. [Peter Callas]
three monitor installation, 20:00 mins, 1981Roslyn Oxley Gallery Sydney (1981) and “A Different Perspective” Artspace Sydney, (1981)
How to Make the Famous Pisco Sour; A Videotape inThree Locations (1986), 16:10 mins, Tokyo.
I Would Have Run But I Had A Heavy Cold (1980), 15:00 mins, Sydney. In I Would Have Run But I Had A Heavy Cold I enter the water beside a pontoon on the Hawkesbury River near Sydney. As speedboats zoom by with skiers in trail I crawl out of the...
If Pigs Could Fly (The Media Machine), (1987), 4:20 mins, Sydney.
Image Music: Tim Donahue (1985) 4:43 mins, Tokyo. Image Music was the first piece I completed with the Fairlight CVI. It was made for American musician Tim Donahue, who was living in Tokyo and had invented a marvelous instrument which he called the “harp guitar”.The tape consists of impressions of the music...
Karkador (1986), 2:55 mins, Tokyo. Commissioned by Pioneer Laser Disk for a project titled “AV Cocktail” (representing the 5th anniversary of laser disk in 1996). Produced by Tyrell Corp, Tokyo with music by P-Model.
Kinema No Yoru (Film Night) (1986) 2:15 mins, Tokyo.
Kiru Umi No Yoni / Cutting Like the Ocean; A Didactic Document Version I, (1983), 21:53 mins, Tokyo.
Kiru Umi No Yoni/Cutting Like the Ocean; A Didactic Document, Version II, (1986), 21:53 mins, Tokyo.
Kommunication (1986) 4:28 mins, Tokyo. The silhouettes of figures (drawn with the keys of a character generator) move in and around a series of television sets. A reworking of the imagery of Nin Nin utilising the Fairlight CVI and A/B rolls. [Peter Callas]
Lost in Translation (1994-99), 6:00 mins, Sydney/Brazil/Karlsruhe. “The double movement of displacement and circulation, loss and regeneration, constitutes a means of uncovering the disjunction between history and memory [in Latin America].” -[Charles Merewether]
Massage (1982), 7:00 mins, Sydney. In Massage (made with Dianne Lloyd) an actor (Geoff Miller) is being massaged with chromakey coloured grease paint. The images which appear within the chromakey areas are generic “media” images.1 1. Peter Callas from “Peter Callas: Initialising History, video works 1980-1999”
installation incorporating videos and built structures.Adelaide Festival (1992);“Video Positive”, Liverpool (1993); Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (1994); “Multimediale 4” ZKM Karlsruhe (1995) Commissioned by the Adelaide Festival, this installation featured two styrofoam sculptured heads of Lenin and Marat, based on imagery from Bilderbuch für Ernst Will (Ernst Will’s Picture Book): A Euro...
