SOMEONE ELSE’S VIEW
1999

Tatiana Goryucheva
Khudozhestvenny Zhurnal (Art Magazine), #26/27, 1999

A black square created in the process of the performance, actually was not a square at all in either of its states.

There was a monitor in the gallery hall where you could see a static picture of a part of the floor where Bill Beirne was working. The camera, which was following his actions, was fixed under the ceiling in the corner of the hall, so no one paid any attention to it. Finally, with the help of Bill’s efforts the whiteness on the monitor’s screen was completely extruded by the blackness, reading of the text was over, and Bill finished his work – there remained a big black quadrangular figure on the floor, with its edges twisted. The resemblance with the avant-garde icon can be easily refuted because even under the required angle of the perspective reduction the rectangle coincided with the proportions of a non-square (as everyone knows) screen. There were three cameras at "TV gallery" that night, which were following the events happening.

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