Paul McCarthy: Black and While Tapes: Everyone Agrees: Meetings and Failures in Meetings
Art Monthly, Mar. 2014, no. 374, pp. 32-33
Early video artist Paul McCarthy's work from 1971-1975, known collectively as the Black and White Tapes, was shown at Space Gallery in London from January 24 to March 16, 2014. His works evoke the early days of video artistry even in this modern setting, and deal with issues of the body, the self, and materiality. McCarthy's work was shown alongside the collective Everyone Agrees' video titled False Friends, a part of a larger installation entitled Meetings and Failures in Meetings. Everyone Agrees' installation uses a situationist style and mashes old French television footage of an interview between novelist Michele Bernstein and Guy Debord and a re-staging of this interview. Both McCarthy's and Everyone Agrees' works are in black and white, situating them within the history of video art and creating an air of the iconic rather than the actively relevant.
ITEM 2014.006 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Black and White Tapes – Paul McCarthy
Painting Face Down - White Linen – Paul McCarthy
Whipping the Wall with Paint – Paul McCarthy
Up Down Penis Show – Paul McCarthy
Spitting – Paul McCarthy
Ma Bell – Paul McCarthy
Meetings and Failures in Meetings – Everyone Agrees (collective)
False Friends – Everyone Agrees (collective)