Critical Writing Index

Agit.Prop: Walter Philips Gallery / Banff / July 9 to 25

by Leila Surji

Vanguard, Oct. Fall 1982, p. 23

Agit.Prop, and international series that problematizes objectivity and subjectivity in the realm of performance art. Leila Surji explains, "the performances in this series forced the audience to re-think perception, and to re-think the message making elements in our society which act as agents of influence on our conscious and unconscious minds".

ITEM 1982.044 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Vital Speech/ Agit Lecture – Bruce Barber

The Georgiana Collection – Stuart Brisley

Arrival – Marcella Bienvennu

Histroy, Colour T.V, and You – Elizabeth Chitty

Moving On – Sonia Knox

On the Cusp of the Eighties – Martha Rosler

Roland Barthes

Every step could be the wrong route to take – Marcel Odenbach

Dallas

Brecht

Meeting with Eve and Adam – Ulrike Rosenbauch

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me – Dusty Springfield