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
Kim Jones
Matthew Barney
Marcel Duchamp
Witch's Cradle Outtakes – Maya Deren
The Way Things Go – Fischli and Weiss
Mike Kelly
Paul McCarthy
Tony Oursler
TV Garden – Nam Hune Paik
Tamy Ben-Tor
Stamping In the Studio – Bruce Nauman
Treehouse Kit – Guy Ben-Ner
Le Radeau de la Macumba – Christoph Draeger
Le Radeau de la Macumba – Gary Breslin
Director's Cut (Fool For Love) – Runa Islam
First Day of Spring – Runa Islam
Group of Seven (One Absent Friend) – Angela Bulloch
Anne Bean
We Have Mice – Ward Shelly
Gesamtkunstwerk – Ward Shelly