The New Narrative: Video In The 80's
Banff Letters, Winter 1984, pp. 3-10
This article examines the new forms of narrative emerging from the thirty-six video works included in the exhibition The Second Link: Viewpoints on Video in the '80's. The evolution of video art is seen here to involve the exchange of 'real time' and 'real life' for more imaginative representations, forming a new rhetoric that takes into account post-modern concerns from which there is no way back to the creation of pure illusions.
ITEM 1984.008 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
City of Angels – Abramovic and Ulay
Grimoire Magnetique – Joelle de la Casiniere
In My End Is My Beggining – Norman Cohn
Les Mots/Maux du Silence – Helen Doyle
Bedtime Story – Tina Keane
Some Call It Bad Luck – Lisa Steele
Der Damon in Berlin – Gabor Body
Crime Time Comic Presents Steel and Flesh – Dana Atchley and Eric Metcalfe
Brutopia – Eric Metcalfe
Visions – John Bentley Mays
And Now The Truth – Vera Frenkel
Ohio to Giverny: Memory of Light – Mary Lucier
Room of the Unknown Function – General Idea
Grand Mall – Tony Oursler
Spine/Time – John Sturgen
Leaving the 20th century – Max Almay
Wallflower Order – Marion Barling