Critical Writing Index

Everyday Events

by Karen Knights

Video Guide, 1986, v. 8, no. 1, pp. 4-5

Karen Knights reviews Video Works, an exhibition curated by Kate Craig and Colin Griffiths. Works shown were by international artists’, and produced by the Western Front between 1978 and 1985. The screenings took place in four sets over two days at the Convertible Showroom of Western Front (an independent contemporary art gallery with strong collaborative ties to the Western Front that took over the former Pumps space).

ITEM 1986.115 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Cornucopia – General Idea

J'aurais Dit Glenn Gould – Robert Racine

Individual Release – Tom Sherman

Teaching and Learning as Performance Arts Part II – Robert Filliou

Delicate Issue – Kate Craig

Variation of Discord and Division – Mona Hartoum

Passports of Love – Andrew James Patterson

Canada Shadows – Canadian Shadow Players

Sax Island – Hank Bull and Eric Metcalfe

Come Fly with Sonny Day – Fraser Finlayson

Bruja – Margaret Fabrizio

Inner Landscape — Insight Image – Ulrike Rosenbach

TLC – Elizabeth Vander Zaag

Breath – Margaret Dragu

Fear of Blue – Tom Dean

Paradise Lost – Kim Tomczak

Mandala '82 – Ko Nakajima

Unbashed Heroics – Randy and Berenicci

El Nino – Vaerkstedt Vaerst