Critical Writing Index

Manhattan Shortcuts: Video and Ritual

by Ann-Sargent Wooster

Afterimage, Feb. Spring 1985, v. 12, no. 7, p. 19

This article contains reviews for two shows. Video and Ritual is a overview of video art practices from the '60s and '70s and contains great insight into the works of Joan Jonas. The critic found that Video and Ritual was fragmented; "rather than creating a tribal, global village, artists' television has fostered according to these tapes individuality and privitsm." - Ann Sargent Wooster

ITEM 1985.049 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy – Joan Jonas

Ritual of Triadic Relations – Paul Ryan

Warlock(ing) – Paul Kos

Yanomami Healing – Juan Downey

Sounds of the Lotus – Ulricke Rosenbach

Memories of Ancestral power-the moro movement in Solomon islands – Bill Viola

Thresholds – Harriet Casom-Silver

Planet of the eye – Rit Myers

Spine/time – Rit Myers