Critical Writing Index

Document & Dream

by Dan Walworth

New York: ARTISTS SPACE, 1989

Document & Dream is a catalogue essay for an exhibition of the same name. In it, Dan Walworth examines the ten videotapes included in the exhibition. Using a dialectical analysis of realism vs. constructions, or nature vs. cultures, Walworth points out that the videotapes not only offer a sample of new directions in contemporary (North American) realism in cinema, but also question the process of our own reading and writing of history.

ITEM 1989.107 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Danny – Stashu Kybartas

The Thief Lives in Hell – Robert Morin

A Public Appearance and a Statement – Keith Sanborn

Hey Bud – Julie Zando

My Life Is for the Rest of My Life (Ma Vie c'est pour le restant de mes jours) – Robert Morin

Heavy Metal Parking Lot – John Heyn and Jeffrey Krulik

Episode 1: So. Cal. – Jayce Salloum

Making Pharaoh's Red Flag Video – Jonathan Horowitz

Nanook of the North – Flaherty

A Man's Woman – Laura Kipnis

Color Schemes – Shu Lea Cheang