Video Piece for Two Glass Office Building -Dan Graham

The video situation is for two opposite and parallel room located in facing glass office buildings. Each room has a large window looking into a similar window in the ohter building.

The sun illuminates the space between the two buildings' windows and as it position shifts through the day, it alters the relative transparency/ reflectiveness on the inside or outside of either window. Each room contains a mirrored wall opposite and parallel to the window which reflects the contents of the room and the view seen through the window. This view through the window includes the reflections on the inside of the window, the outside facade of the other building, any outside reflections on the winodw opposite, and also what is observable inside the opposite room.

Each room has a large video monitor placed in front of its window so that the screen faces the mirror, which reflects the screen's image as well as that of the observer. A camera placed on top of each of the monitors faces the mirror to record its entire view.

The view from the camera in the left building is transimtted live to the monitor in the right building; but the view from the camera in the right building is transmitted eight seconds delayed to the monitor in the left building.

A spectator can either look at the mirror's view or look out through his window into the opposite room. In looking into the opposite room, it is possible to see that room's monitor-image reflected on the wall's mirro, which shows a view of his room's mirror's reflected image.

-mirror enhances the narcissistic tendencies of the spectator, as well as the alienation of the spectator from his body-image and from the goods.