Over the last ten years, Video Positive has established itself
as Britain's premier showcase for artists' work with video and
new technology. As part of this, Tate Liverpool in partnership
with the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology is staging
three newly commissioned large-scale video works by
Monika Oechsler, Dryden Goodwin and A.K. Dolven.
A.K. Dolven's Looking Back was filmed above the Arctic Circle
and features three elderly women walking backwards across
a dramatic landscape. The film has been slowed down
giving the work a quietly graceful and nostalgic feel. Dryden
Goodwin's multi-screened video, Wait, comprises a series of
video fragments from real-life situations featuring people
waiting in anticipation for different events, the nature of which
the viewer can only guess. Monica Oechsler's Johari's
Window is a four-screen projection exploring the
psychological drama within an all-female poker game.