The Video Show
Art and Artists, May 1975, v. 10, no. 110/2, pp. 20-25
Review of an Arts Council festival featuring British video curated in part by the author. Hall writes at length on the technical and perceptual differences between video and film: the TV as a quotidian piece of furniture that thus saves video from the elitism of high art, video as a continuous stream and total signal, video and instantaneity. The author laments the lack of interest of broadcast television in video art in the UK, and the absence of institutional interest in The Video Show. Hall suggests that video art in Britain is behind the rest of the world in terms of exhibition and experiment, which he attributes to the expense of video in the UK. He advocates an interdisciplinary approach among artists for video art to grow. Hall examines the videos chosen for The Video Show in great detail, with emphasis on works that involve time-delay and time-oriented installations and the anti-filmic particularities of video.
ITEM 1975.023 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Test No. 1 – Doug Waterman
Corridor Installation – Michael Druks
Irving Bridge – Roger Barnado
Boomerang – Gerry Schum
Past Future Split Attention – Woody Vasulka
Television Delivers People – Steina Vasulka
Vertical Roll – Ed Emschwiller
Both – Tom Dewitt
Contact Piece: A Nude Model (Donna) – William Gwin
Test Card Piece – Richard Serra
Support - Surface – Dan Graham
Transvideo – Richard Serra
Is it Art? – Joan Jonas
Yet Another Triangle – Jim Byrne
Videvent – Dieter Froese
Outside the Grounds of Obscenity and Inside the Grounds of Hyde Park – Paul Sharits
Nemo Omen – Eric Cameron
Dance Inside – Clive Richardson
Dance Inside – René Bauermeister
Dance Inside – René Bauermeister
Dance Inside – Peter Weibel
Sketches – Valie Export
Suburban Showdown – Tak Ilmura
Crosspoints – Nam June Paik
Rotary Plaything – David Critchley
Vacuum – Brian Hoey
101 TV Sets – Mike Leggett
Performances – Stuart Pound
Faces – June Marsh
G.I. Views – Mary Sheridan
Live/Delay – John Gray
Breeze – Videoart Group
Set Piece for One Performer – Clive Richardson
Set Piece for One Performer – Darcy Lange
Three Views from The Park – Ron Carr
Blind Circuit – Steve Partridge
First Conversation – Liz Rhodes
This is a Video Monitor – Tony Sinden
Aspects – Tony Sinden
Relative Surfaces – Tony Sinden
Vidicon Inscriptions – Lee Noble
Dieffenbachia Roll – Lee Noble
Progressive Recession – Group Identity
Snowcale – Trevor Pollard
Corridor – Tamara Krikorian
Rolande Thomas
Peter Mitchelson
Sue Braden
Mike Dunford
Dirk Larsen
Bill Lundberg
Pete Livingstone
David Hall
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Steve Partridge
Roger Barnard