Critical Writing Index

Video and Orality

by Peggy Gale

Canadian Art, Summer 1993, v. 10, no. 2, pp. 79-80

This review of Video and Orality, at the National Gallery of Canada, documents how the exhibition, arising from research on television and oral culture, presents a combination of portraiture, autobiography and oral speech as especially significant in artists' video production.

ITEM 1993.005 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Measures of Distance – Mona Hatoum

Anger – Maxi Cohen

The Electronic Diary – Lynn Hershman

Exclusive Memory – Tom Sherman

Sois sage ô ma douleur – Serge Murphy and Charles Guilbert

The Board Room – Antonio Muntadas

A Very Personal Story – Lisa Steele

Boomerang – Richard Serra

Longshot – Lynn Hershman

The Ballad of Dan Peoples – Lisa Steele