Beyond Video: Why Is So Much of Today's Video Art Accompanied By Things That Go Bump In The Dark?
Art Review:, Feb. 2007, no. 8, pp. 78-83
Current trends in video work are seeing the medium more often paired with three dimensional installation. Herbert tracks the progression of video installations as it emerged from shattered modernist theories of medium-specificity to it's contemporary, "promiscuous" relationship with sculpture and live performance.
Sculptural works disrupt the passive viewing of video-as-TV, "spiking the habitual slow trance and denial of corporality that is the handmaiden of single channel conveyance."
ITEM 2007.010 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Hateball – Nathaniel Mellors
TV Bra For Living Sculpture – Nam June Paik
Live-Taped Video Corridor – Bruce Nauman
Berlin Exercises – Rebecca Horn
Witch's Cradle Outtakes – Kim Jones
The Way Things Go – Matthew Barney
TV Garden – Marcel Duchamp
Stamping In the Studio – Maya Deren
Treehouse Kit – Fischli and Weiss
Le Radeau de la Macumba – Mike Kelly
Le Radeau de la Macumba – Paul McCarthy
Director's Cut (Fool For Love) – Tony Oursler
First Day of Spring – Nam Hune Paik
Group of Seven (One Absent Friend) – Tamy Ben-Tor
We Have Mice – Bruce Nauman
Gesamtkunstwerk – Guy Ben-Ner
Christoph Draeger
Gary Breslin
Runa Islam
Runa Islam
Angela Bulloch
Anne Bean
Ward Shelly
Ward Shelly