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
Doug Waterman
Test No. 1 – Michael Druks
Corridor Installation – Roger Barnado
Gerry Schum
Woody Vasulka
Steina Vasulka
Ed Emschwiller
Tom Dewitt
Irving Bridge – William Gwin
Boomerang – Richard Serra
Past Future Split Attention – Dan Graham
Television Delivers People – Richard Serra
Vertical Roll – Joan Jonas
Both – Jim Byrne
Dieter Froese
Paul Sharits
Contact Piece - Nude Model – Eric Cameron
Test Card Piece – Clive Richardson
Support - Surface – René Bauermeister
Transvideo – René Bauermeister
Is it Art? – Peter Weibel
Valie Export
Tak Ilmura
Nam June Paik
Yet Another Triangle – David Critchley
Videvent – Brian Hoey
Outside the Grounds of Obscenity and Inside the Grounds of Hyde Park – Mike Leggett
Nemo Omen – Stuart Pound
Dance Inside – June Marsh
Dance Inside – Mary Sheridan
Dance Inside – John Gray
Dance Inside – Videoart Group
Sketches – Clive Richardson
Darcy Lange
Suburban Showdown – Ron Carr
Crosspoints – Steve Partridge
Liz Rhodes
Rotary Plaything – Tony Sinden
Vacuum – Tony Sinden
101 TV Sets – Tony Sinden
Performances – Lee Noble
Faces – Lee Noble
G.I. Views – Group Identity
Live/Delay – Trevor Pollard
Breeze – Tamara Krikorian
Set Piece for One Performer – Rolande Thomas
Set Piece for One Performer – Peter Mitchelson
Three Views from The Park – Sue Braden
Blind Circuit – Mike Dunford
Dirk Larsen
First Conversation – Bill Lundberg
Pete Livingstone
This is a Video Monitor – David Hall
Aspects – David Hall
Relative Surfaces – David Hall
Vidicon Inscriptions – David Hall
Dieffenbachia Roll – David hall
Progressive Recession – David hall
Snowcale – Steve Partridge
Corridor – Roger Barnard