Critical Writing Index

Guerrilla Video: Electrons Outside the Vacuum vol.2

by James MacSwain, M. E. Luka and Ariella Pahlke

Halifax: Centre For Art Tapes, 2002

Guerrilla Video was featured as part of the Electrons Outside the Vacuum series at the Centre for Art Tapes in 2002. This program describes video works that explore collaboration, social action, and raw aesthetics, curated by Luka, MacSwain, and Pahlke. In the programme "the curators describe the criteria they used for choosing the submissions. They explain they were looking for low-budget, low-tech political work that resisted the mainstream, broke taboos, and met the dictionary definition of 'guerrilla': short, sharp engagements. The artists provide brief descriptions of their videos" (quote taken from the artexte website). Guerrilla Video was the second of three screenings initiated by CFAT's programming committee "as a means of seeing and showing video work that may not typically be sucked into the video art mainstream" (quote taken from Laura MacKay's introduction). Texts by James MacSwain, M. E. Luka, Ariella Pahlke, and Laura MacKay.

Two copies are available, one in yellow, and the other in pink.

ITEM FP.Exp.001 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Tweetys – S. E. Barnet

Tweetys – Kathy Chenoweth

The Fine Arts – Emily Vey Duke

The Fine Arts – Cooper Battersby

Canada: The Sperm Bank of Satan – Graham Hollings

Gooney Tunes – Kevin McMahon

Gooney Tunes – Christopher Donaldson

Claygirl – Victoria Prince

Like a Nice Rubber Gas Mask – Malcolm Rogge

Queer History: A List – Adrienne Connelly

late night tv history lessons – Valerie Salez

Fall – Karen Earl

The Up and the down – Kika Thorne