Video In Canada: In Search of Authority
From Sea to Shining Sea, 1986, pp. 170-179
Toronto: The Power Plant, 1986
This essay, from the catalogue for the exhibition From Sea to Shining Sea, examines how video, a medium in search of its own authority, is confounded by its myriad functions. After more than a decade of history, its virtual exclusion from established venues of presentation requires the constant cultivation of a context in which it can exist. Further examined are the artists and the network of artist run centres across Canada that supported video as an artistic medium.
ITEM 1986.033 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Media Wall – Dave Rimmer, Bill Fix and Tom Shandel
Images from Infinity – Byron Black
Qu'est ce qu'on a fait au bon Dieu? – Yves Chaput
Pea Soup – Pierre Falardeau and Julien Poulin
A Very Personal Story – Lisa Steele
The Ballad of Dan Peoples – Lisa Steele
True/False – Colin Campbell
Real Split – Colin Campbell
This is the way I really Am – Colin Campbell
Light On – General Idea
Shuffle – Doug Waterman
Fill – David Askevold
Keeping On Top Of The Song – Ian Murray
We All Sing the Same Song – Glenn Lewis
Steel and Flesth – Eric Metcalfe
Sax Island – Eric Metcalfe
The Mainstreet Tapes – Paul Wong
Prime Cuts – Paul Wong
100 Years of Agression – Kim Tomczak
Vancouver Canada Or They Chant Fed Up – Kim Tomczak
Paradise Lost – Kim Tomczak
One Hundred Aboriginal Women – Amelia Productions
Keeping Marlene Out of the Picture - And Lawn – Eric Cameron
Once Upon the Idea of Two – Noel Harding
Nightmare (Three Essays for Edward O. Wilson) – Ed Slopek
Memoir d'octobre – Jean-Pierre Boyer
Chaperons Rouges – Helen Doyle and Helene Bourgault
The Scientist Tapes – Colin Campbell and Lisa Steele
The Woman From Malibu – Colin Campbell
Bad Girls – Colin Campbell
Waiting for Lancelot – Lisa Steele
Gloria – Lisa Steele
The Secret Life of Cornelia Lumsden, A Remarkable Story – Vera Frenkel
The Mississippi Tapes: 1 to 6 – Jane Wright