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The Shock of the Still (1985)
Video tape and Installation with spectator interaction.
Photos: Jill ScottAssistant: Cathie VoganSponsorship: JVC Australia and The Video Paint Brush Company, Sydney …

Jill Scott – In the Loop
by Stephen Jones, October 2003
(originally written for the Australian launch of Scott’s book Coded Characters)

Jill Scott’s work has covered many aspects of the wide spectrum of visual art that developed since the appearance of the post-object, conceptual and electronic arts over the last thirty years …

Wishful Thinking (1988), 30mins
TV pilot for a five-part series that Scott has described as 'feminist science fiction’ ...

Triple Fate (1986)
Single monitor Installation with game, water, sound, video and photographs.
Science Fiction is no longer fiction, its fact – an extension of the present …

Double Dream (1985)Videotape (media critical narrative) and video installation …

Double Space (1985)Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia …

Double Time (1985)
Video tape and Installation with spectator interaction.
Actors: Astronaut: Bonita Ely and Aquarius: Hillary MaisSound: The DynabytesVideo Mix: Peter ButterworthSponsorship: The University of Technology and Fairlight Instruments Ltd …

Alluvium (1983)
Shown at:Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery – Sydney, Australia.26 May–11 June, 1983.

Sand the Stimulant (1982) 1
Performance installation with closed circuit video, and sound produced with Revolving Desert Simulators (1978)
Photos: Tom MarioniCurator: Rene PriticanFunded by the Bay Area Video Coalition and Langton Street Arts.

Shown at: 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, 11 February, 1982

References:
1Marsh, Anne (1993) Body and self: performance art in Australia 1969-92, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1993, p.156
See also Robert Atkins, review of Jill Scott, “Sand the Stimulant,” at 80 Langton St., San Francisco, ArtForum, September 1982 …

The Constriction series is a work in four manifestations
Constriction Part 1 (1982), 3/4” U-matic, colour, 14 mins.
Videotape performanceFunded by the Bay Area Video CoalitionCollection: The Art Gallery of New South Wales; The Art Gallery of Queensland; Video Scan Gallery, Tokyo.
Screenings:80 Langton Street, San Francisco, USA, 12 February, 1982.The Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia …

Desire The Code (1981), 3/4” U-matic, colour.
Performance installation with pre-recorded video display; atSite, Cite, Sight, Inc, San Francisco.
Documentation: Mark Samuelson,Sound: Allan Scarritt and Jill Scott,Sponsors: The Bay Area Video Coalition and Site, Cite, Sight Inc …

The Magnetic Tapes (1981), 3/4” U-matic, color.
Three narrative videotapes
Voyeurism (6min)Dictatorship (6min)Retaliation (6min)

Editing and Camera: Jill ScottActor: Sarah YakiraSponsorship: Video Free America, San Francisco.
“Visual illustrations of stories from my travels in Africa and India …

Order The Underfire (1980) (1979?), 3/4” U-matic, colour.
Performance installation with video at University of California at Davis, California, with sound from a Revolving Desert Simulator, shadow play and video stills.
Photos: Mike Henderson, Funded by the Visiting Artists Program of the University of California at Davis, USA.

Out, The Back (1979),
Performance with sound generators
The Franklin Furnace, New York;1Curator: Jackie ApplePhotos: Sam SchoenbaumAssistant: Larry Fox
Maryland College of the Arts, Baltimore, Maryland, USA ...

The Homecoming (1978)
Performance with family members …

Moved (1978),
b&w, 3/4” U-matic, stereo, 30 mins …

Extremities (1978).
Langton Street Studio, May 1978
Performance with spectator interaction and video surveillance.
Performance installation with surveillance video of audience behaviour relayed to performer in central “box” ...

Taped, Boxed, Hung, Strung (1977), 3/4” U-matic, colour.
The four 1975 performances documented on video1

1Jill Scott, “Taped”, High Performance, vol.1, no.1 (February 1978), pp.10-11 …

Moved Up Moved Down (1977-78).
Artist and spectator performance task with video surveillance.Bay Area Artworks at The Women’s Building, Los Angeles, USA ...

Inside-Out (1976),
performance, Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco) basement …

Accidents For One (1976)
Performance with live video.“Open Studios”, South of Market Series, Neighbourhood Arts Foundation, San Francisco, USA.
Camera: Mark GillilandFlute: Carla Harryman
Almorative Dance (1976), 1/2” B&W, 20 mins.Video: instructions for the performance: Accidents For One …

Accidents For Four (1976)
Studio, San Francisco; Spectator performances to instructions; recorded to video …

Taped (1975), 1/2” B&W,
Performance: Wall of a warehouse building on 9th St, San Francisco …

Boxed (1975),
Performance; 80 Langton St, San Francisco …

Tied (1975)
Performance …