Critical Writing Index

Introduction: Colin Campbell

by Bruce Ferguson

Canada Video, 1980, pp. 9-29

Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1980

This article includes the introduction to the catalogue for the exhibition Canada Video, which was presented in conjunction with the Venice Biennial. The introduction examines how video work in Canada has been locked between the museum system and broadcasting, most frequently seen and critically analyzed by its own adherents in the confines of alternative art centres and journals. The main text of the article regards the videotapes by Colin Campbell included in the exhibition and examines how his works investigate the ambiguity of image and audio information in the television format.

ITEM 1980.039 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

The Woman From Malibu – Colin Campbell

The Temperature in Lima – Colin Campbell

Culver City Limits – Colin Campbell

Hollywood and Vine – Colin Campbell

Bad Girls – Colin Campbell

True/False – Colin Campbell

Real Split – Colin Campbell

This is an Edit/This is Real – Colin Campbell

Janus – Colin Campbell

I'm a Voyeur – Colin Campbell

Secrets – Colin Campbell

Hindsight – Colin Campbell

Sackville, I'm Yours – Colin Campbell

Smile – Colin Campbell

California Myth/Reality – Colin Campbell

Shango Botanica – Colin Campbell

Modern Love – Colin Campbell