Critical Writing Index

Corpus Loquendi: body for speaking

by Jan Peacock

Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1994

ISBN ISBN # 0-7703-0684-5

This catalogue contemplates a survey of video art in Halifax between the years 1972-1982. The catalogue essay includes a history of video art developing in the region and details the thought process of the curator putting together the show, as well as offering a background to each artist selected for exhibition.

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

The Red Tapes – Vito Acconci

My Recall of an Imprint from a Hypothetical Jungle – David Askevold

Pop-Pop-Video: General Hospital/Olympic Women Speedskating – Dara Birnbaum

Susan – Susan Britton

Numb Bares II – Eric Cameron

Exploring Comfort – Dorit Cypis

48-Hour Beauty Blitz – Wendy Geller

Past/Future Split Attention – Dan Graham

Nova Boetia: Another World – Ian Murray

Semiotics of the Kitchen – Martha Rosler

Plato Non-A – Ed Slopek

Shuffle – Douglas Waterman

Three Early Works – Martha Wilson