Critical Writing Index

In Video

by Peggy Gale and Bruce Ferguson

Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1977

Catalogue for 1977 touring exhibition In Video, which showcased videos dating from the 1970's and produced by 27 artists from the United States and Canada. The videos in the exhibition were loosely organized into three overlapping themes: Performance and Concepts, Personal Views, and Culture Probe. Includes reprinted 1977 essay by guest curator Peggy Gale. The touring exhibition kicked off at Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax in November 1977 and the AGO in Toronto in January of 1978 before concluding at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1978.

ITEM 1977.029 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

The Red Tapes – Vito Acconci

The Eternal Frame – Ant Farm

My Recall of an Imprint From a Hypothetical Jungle – David Askevold

The Formula – Susan Britton

Numb Bares – Eric Cameron

Hollywood and Vine – Colin Campbell

Three Transitions – Peter Campus

Dynamic Desire – Cyne Cobb

A1; B1; B2; B3 – Don Druik

Le Magra – Pierre Falardeau

Pilot – General Idea

Past Future Split Attention – Dan Graham

Birth's Child – Noel Harding

Vertical Roll – Joan Jonas

The Stick – John Orentlicher

In Video Traction, Act 1 – Clive Robertson

Television Delivers People – Richard Serra

Television's Human Nature – Tom Sherman

Evidence – Alan Sondheim

Waiting for Lancelot – Lisa Steele

Shuffle – Doug Waterman

Selected Works, Reel 6 – William Wegman

Pauli Schell – Rodney Werden

Synapses – David Askevold

I'm OK You're OK – Susan Britton

In the Mood – Susan Britton

True/False – Colin Campbell

(AE) TWO; Sequence 6 – Don Druik

Simplified Confusions – Noel Harding

Latex Lure – John Orentlicher

Captive – John Orentlicher

Under His Thumb – John Orentlicher

G's Dream – Lisa Steele

I'm Having Trouble With My Heart – Lisa Steele

186,000 Miles Per Second – Lisa Steele

The View – Lisa Steele

Domestication – Lisa Steele

At Snake Spring – Lisa Steele

The Witness – Lisa Steele