The Video Mix
The Second Link - Viewpoints on Video in the Eighties, 1983, pp. 21-24
Banff: Walter Phillips Gallery, 1983
This article brings up an issue of how video making is losing its place in the art world nowadays. A concern among artists to make tapes that could find wider audiences since video moved from internal to external references, rather than the techinical and perceptual aspects. Some of the works such as Ian Bourn's The End of the World are mentioned to show that they hold on to meaning through their recognition of their relation to broadcast television, either playing with or directly drawing from it, by making a more specific relation to an audience, and by incorporating wit and narrative as well as formal and technical devices.
ITEM 1983.085 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
My Surprise by Memory of Your Nose – Nicola Rosalie
Bedtime Story – Tina Keane
The End of the World – Ian Bourn