Clark Nikolai
Clark Nikolai lives and creates art in Vancouver. Originally from Saskatchewan, where he made films and videos in Saskatoon’s vibrant punk and parallel art scenes. His work covers all genres and often combines found footage, music and experimental visual effects, stylized staging and dream-like experimental narratives. He is an early pioneer of video art in the Canadian prairies, and was a founding member of both the Open Air Audio Visual Co-op (1984) and Video Vérité Artist Centre (1989) of Saskatoon (now PAVED). Since 1981, he has produced over fifty videos and films, which have screened and received awards around the world. His practice has also included still photography and experimental music.
Videography
2017, 06:00 minutes, colour, English and German w/ English, w/ German, w/ Spanish subtitles
2016, 10:00 minutes, colour, English
2016, 05:10 minutes, colour, English
2013, 10:21 minutes, colour, English
2013, 09:25 minutes, colour, English
2013, 02:46 minutes, colour, English
2012, 07:32 minutes, colour, English
2012, 05:55 minutes, colour, English
2012, 03:15 minutes, colour, English
2010, 09:17 minutes, colour, English
2010, 10:10 minutes, colour, Italian with English subtitles
2009, 03:31 minutes, colour
2009, 02:49 minutes, colour, English
2008, 03:00 minutes, colour
2007, 05:20 minutes, colour, English
2006, 04:23 minutes, colour, English & Cantonese
2006, 03:23 minutes, colour, No Dialogue
2005, 19:00 minutes, colour, English
2004, 04:11 minutes, colour, English
An der Nordseeküste (1. singing version 2. karaoke version)
2003, 03:40 minutes, Colour, German w German sub
2003, 08:08 minutes, colour, English
2002, 03:42 minutes, Colour, French/Chinese
2001, 04:29 minutes, colour
2001, 01:25 minutes, colour
2001, 07:50 minutes, colour, English
1999, 01:25 minutes, Colour
1998, 04:41 minutes
1998, 30:52 minutes
1998, 03:23 minutes, colour, English
1997, 13:34 minutes, colour
1996, colour
1995, 08:37 minutes, colour, English
1995, 02:48 minutes, colour
1994, 13:07 minutes, colour
1993, 02:16 minutes, colour
1992, 08:15 minutes, colour
1992, 02:04 minutes, B&W
1991, 14:20 minutes, colour
1991, 01:32 minutes, colour
1989, 09:34 minutes, colour, English
1989, 07:29 minutes, B&W
1985, 22:17 minutes, colour
1984, 04:52 minutes, colour, English
The Temple of the Sacred Lady Crayon goes percussion
1984, 06:53 minutes, colour
1984, 08:17 minutes, colour
1983, 21:22 minutes, colour, English
1983, 14:45 minutes, colour, English
1983, 01:36 minutes, colour
1983, 07:00 minutes, colour
Critical Writing
by . NeWest Review, Apr. 1993, v. 18, no. 2.