General Idea: Towards an Audience Vocabulary
VIDEO re/VIEW: The (best) Source for Critical Writings on Canadian Artists' Video, 1996, pp. 403-410
Toronto: Art Metropole & V tape, 1996
The article is an interview between Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker and members of General Idea, A.A. Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal, regarding their videotape/performance executed in 1976, Press Conference. Issues explored include the relationship between the "real" viewing audience and the on-stage performers acting as the audience members and the purpose of this dialectic, ideas of narrative continuity and discontinuity, and the sometimes negative reactions of the "real" audience to the piece.
ITEM 1996.034 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
A.A. Bronson
Felix Partz
Jorge Zontal
Press Conference – General Idea
Miss General Idea Pavillion – General Idea
Fruit Cocktails – David Buchan
Hot Property – General Idea