Talk, talk: When Words Become Works Video Program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Oct. 3-Nov.5, 1983
Afterimage, Feb. 1984, v. 11, no. 7, p. 16
A review of a recent video exhibition as part of a festival on language and art. 21 tapes were screened in what the author notes was a "highly selective and rather conservative overview"(16) of language in video art. She decribes video as having a unique potential to reduce language to its barest essentials and the low-tech equipment that permitted postmodern experimentation with language. The exhibit, by contrast, was limited to the old guard of solipsistic video art and attempted to precisely categorize what is still an expanding and fluid manifestation of video.
ITEM 1984.138 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Bruce Nauman
Charlemagne Palestine
Vito Acconci
Lawrence Weiner
John Baldessari
William Wegman
Richard Serra
Robert Morris
Pressures of the Text – Peter Rose
Primarily Speaking – Gary Hill
Purely Human Sleep – Ken Feingold
Vito's Reef – Howard Fried
Blue Period – Julia Heyward
Banana Man – Michael Kelley
Weak Bullet – Tony Oursler