60 Minutes Silence

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60 Minutes Silence is a conceptual video artwork by British artist Gillian Wearing that presents a group of uniformed police officers posed as if for a still photograph but filmed over an extended duration to reveal subtle movements and psychological tension.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf conceptual artwork
video artwork
artisticStrategy blurring still photography and moving image
critiquing institutional authority through portraiture
using duration to reveal psychological states
artMovement Young British Artists NERFINISHED
cameraPosition fixed frontal view
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Gillian Wearing NERFINISHED
depicts uniformed police officers
duration 60 minutes
exhibitionContext art gallery
museum of contemporary art NERFINISHED
feature facial micro-expressions
group of seated and standing officers
subtle bodily movements
format single-channel video
genre conceptual art
video art
hasLanguage none
intendedEffect discomfort in prolonged observation
heightened viewer awareness of time
lighting even studio-style lighting
medium video
movement contemporary art
narrativeForm non-narrative
portrays British police officers
productionType staged
relatedWorkByCreator Drunk NERFINISHED
Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say NERFINISHED
soundtrack ambient room sound
subjectPosition frontal group portrait
technique extended-duration filming
posed group portrait
theme authority
institutional power
performance and pose
psychological tension
public order
representation of the police
surveillance
time and duration
visualStyle resembles a still photograph
static camera

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Gillian Wearing notableWork 60 Minutes Silence