Critical Writing Index

Doing the Documentary-Suggestive and Didactic

by Gary Kibbins

Fuse, Summer 1987, no. 46, pp. 50-55

Article by Gary Kibbins on the New Documentary event at the A Space in Toronto.

Kibbins goes to explain how this exhibition depicts how the Documentary style has been reinvisioned with newer, more abstract techniques. This Article looks at these various film and video to documentary hybrids that hold the trappings of a documentary, yet are not classified as one.

ITEM 1987.047 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Working the Double Shift (1986)Lisa Steele

Part I: UntitledKim Tomczak

Part II: Does the Knife Cry When It Enters the Skin? (1984)Jorge Lozano

Jorge Lozano