Video Art/Performance: A Border Theory
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 1991.110 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Nam June Paik
Centers – Vito Acconci
Command Performance – Vito Acconci
Split Reality/Zeit und Gegenzeit/Interrupted Movement – Valie Export
Die Praxis des Lebens – Valie Export
Nightsea Crossing – Marina Abramovic
Wipe Cycle – Frank Gillette & Ira Schneider
Live/Taped Video Corridor – Bruce Naumann
Total Recall – Gretchen Bender
Board Room – Antonio Muntadas
Heuschrecken – Wolf Vostell
Ulrike Rosenbach
Surname: Viet, Given Name: Nam – Trinh T. Minh-ha
Fin de Siecle II – Nam June Paik
Room for Saint John of the Cross – Bill Viola
PM Magazine – Dara Birnbaum
Damnation of Faust – Dara Birnbaum
Les Larmes d'Acier – Marie Jo Lafontaine
Victoria – Marie Jo Lafontaine
When the World was Flat – Terry Berkowitz
Plus Ultra – Francesc Torres
Oikonomos – Francesc Torres