“I Would Have Run But I Had a Heavy Cold” by Peter Callas
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I Would Have Run But I Had a Heavy Cold
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Single channel video work, 15:00 mins, Sydney, 1980
In I Would Have Run But I Had A Heavy Cold I enter the water beside a pontoon on the Hawkesbury River near Sydney. As speedboats zoom by with skiers in trail I crawl out of the water at the end of the pontoon – and come towards the camera repetitively until I am exhausted. [source: http://scanlines.net/object/i-would-have-run-i-had-heavy-cold]
