Critical Writing Index

Video Art/Performance: A Border Theory

by Johannes Birringer

Performing Arts Journal, Sept. 1991, v. 13, no. 3, pp. 54-84

The author analyzes video as a post-modern electronic medium which is free of modern traditions, techniques and genres. This pronouncement is used to study video's history, as well as its connections to other artistic media, especially performative art forms and sculpture. This essay also looks at the history of video with a speculation towards its future, and contains information on a vast variety of video art works.

ITEM 1991.059 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Centers – Nam June Paik

Command Performance – Vito Acconci

Split Reality/Zeit und Gegenzeit/Interrupted Movement – Vito Acconci

Die Praxis des Lebens – Valie Export

Nightsea Crossing – Valie Export

Wipe Cycle – Marina Abramovic

Live/Taped Video Corridor – Frank Gillette & Ira Schneider

Total Recall – Bruce Naumann

Board Room – Gretchen Bender

Heuschrecken – Antonio Muntadas

Surname: Viet, Given Name: Nam – Wolf Vostell

Fin de Siecle II – Ulrike Rosenbach

Room for Saint John of the Cross – Trinh T. Minh-ha

PM Magazine – Nam June Paik

Damnation of Faust – Bill Viola

Les Larmes d'Acier – Dara Birnbaum

Victoria – Dara Birnbaum

When the World was Flat – Marie Jo Lafontaine

Plus Ultra – Marie Jo Lafontaine

Oikonomos – Terry Berkowitz

Francesc Torres

Francesc Torres