Critical Writing Index

First-generation Video

by Carole Corbeil

The Globe and Mail, June 14, 1988

This article praises Vintage Video; a show grouping 19 works from the generation of artists who first used video. The show's curator, Renée Baert, has created a program examining several prominent themes in Canadian video in the 1970s. These themes include issues of corporeality and all things somatic and kinesthetic, mediation and intimacy, the ideology behind mass media, and finally, the influence of feminism upon the thoughts and narratives on view in Canadian art in general, and Canadian video art in specific.

ITEM 1986.083 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Insertion – Eldon Cameron

Peepers – John Watt

Janus – Colin Campbell

A Very Personal Story – Lisa Steele

Happy Birthday – Gerry Gilbert

Happy Birthday – Carole Itter

Kiss – Robert Bowers

Box Concert – Suzy Lake

Shuffle – Doug Waterman

Scan Gaspe – Michael Hayden

Earthworks In Harmony – Paul Wong

Sand Pile – Tom Burrows

Birth Child – Noel Harding

Dance Soap – Marien Lewis