David Askevold

"Holding a rubber band between my thumbs and forefingers, I strum it as fast as I can close to the microphone. The camera is static and runs until...

"I strike the first pair of tuning forks on the edge of a table, raise and point them close to the microphone for their audible duration. they are...

"The performer is framed within the open window facing the camera one story above the street below. When a car, van or truck passes below, he asks,...

"The static camera is placed in a room lit by an overhead controlled lighting system. Two flashlights are strapped to my ankles and the other to one...

"A disk of wax soaked with lighter fluid is placed on one end of the balanced plywood. I run toward and Jump on the other end, catapulting the wax...

Four channel video taped in the summer of 1995 along British Columbia's Fraser River.

Documentation of an exhibition at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, Canada, 1993-1995.

Sixteen Candles is a recording of a constructed candle chandelier which is suspended by a cord, wound up and allowed to wind down for recording in...

"The preparation for this video was primarily psychological - to create an atmosphere of expectations of powerlessness to induce a frame of mind...

This composition is about the hollowness of material wealth, the poverty of alienation and the different forms they take. This concept is mainly...

Sixteen Candles is a recording of a constructed candle chandelier which is suspended by a cord, wound up and allowed to wind down for recording in...

A man who works for an "issues" related magazine comes to Herring Cove, N.S. to look at photographs by a female photographer for possible publication.

A man who works for an "issues" related magazine comes to Herring Cove, N.S. to look at photographs by a female photographer for possible publication.

A man who works for an "issues" related magazine comes to Herring Cove, N.S. to look at photographs by a female photographer for possible publication.

"it continued to rain all day for some reason people started to talk about Delaware no one knew anything about it no one had been there or knew...

"The static camera is placed in a room lit by an overhead controlled lighting system. Two flashlights are strapped to my ankles and the other to one...

A classically trained musician learns the lyrics and tune, live on tape, of the Hank Williams' song, "Honky Tonkin", prompted and coached by a friend...

"This tape is comprised of a sensual drift of images which allude to or trace evidence of psychic energy that surfaces within the image. The tape...

"The performer is framed within the open window facing the camera one story above the street below. When a car, van or truck passes below, he asks,...

"I strike the first pair of tuning forks on the edge of a table, raise and point them close to the microphone for their audible duration. they are...

"A disk of wax soaked with lighter fluid is placed on one end of the balanced plywood. I run toward and Jump on the other end, catapulting the wax...

In Rhea (1982), Askevold elaborates on his interest in allusion and implication, using images that seem to be fragments of a larger narrative to...

"Don't Eat Crow", a somewhat situational piece, consists of an audio narration by Katherine Grevatt, an unpublished novelist who lives along the...

This piece is about placing two major recording artists on the same stage together after they have been dead for some time. Since Hank Snow and Hank...

"Holding a rubber band between my thumbs and forefingers, I strum it as fast as I can close to the microphone. The camera is static and runs until...

"Don't Eat Crow", a somewhat situational piece, consists of an audio narration by Katherine Grevatt, an unpublished novelist who lives along the...

In Rhea (1982), Askevold elaborates on his interest in allusion and implication, using images that seem to be fragments of a larger narrative to...

A musician plays a violin to a black dog, a white horse, a sheep, lamb and chickens in a barn yard while it is raining at a small farm yard in Clam...

A musician plays a violin to a black dog, a white horse, a sheep, lamb and chickens in a barn yard while it is raining at a small farm yard in Clam...

"The performer describes how to shrink a head, using an avocado and its pit that is recorded on one audio channel. The other props include a table...

In Rhea (1982), Askevold elaborates on his interest in allusion and implication, using images that seem to be fragments of a larger narrative to...

"Fill is my first video; the monitor becomes a picture-sound box. The screen is filled by laying sheets of aluminum foil on a microphone and wrapped...

In Rhea (1982), Askevold elaborates on his interest in allusion and implication, using images that seem to be fragments of a larger narrative to...

"Along the South Shore of Nova Scotia, I poured a mixture of gasoline and oil on various stone configurations and along some beaches, lit them and...

The performer’s upside down frontal head fills the monitor, staring into the camera trying not to blink for the duration of a recording of Ray...

The room is dark and a recording of 14 tuning forks is playing in the room. The subject is asked to lie on a cot and relax. An overhead spotlight...