Critical Writing Index

Video Art: A Top Twenty

by John Slyce and Matthew Collings

Modern Painters, Summer 2000, v. 13, no. 2, pp. 30-33

A top twenty guide of basic concepts and important names in video art.

ITEM 2000.056 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Slow Angle Walk/Beckett Walk – Bruce Nauman

Spelling Lesson – William Wegman

Semiotics of the Kitchen – Martha Rosler

Vexation Island – Rodney Graham

The Passing – Bill Viola

Performer/Audience/Mirror – Dan Graham

The Red Tapes – Vito Acconci

2 into 1 – Gillian Wearing

Fall II – Bas Jan Ader

Moon is the Oldest TV – Nam June Pak

Electronic Superhighway – Nam June Pak

Why Do Things Get In a Muddle (Come on Petunia) – Gary Hill

I Love You – Gillian Wearing

So Help Me Hannah – Hannah Wilke

Evening – Stan Douglas

7 TV Pieces – David Hall

Family Tyranny and Cultural Soup – Paul McCarthy

Family Tyranny and Cultural Soup – Mike Kelly

Vertical Roll – Joan Jonas

I am not a girl who misses – Pipilotti Rist

I am Making Art – John Baldessari

Through the Looking Glass – Douglas Gorden

Dead Pan – Steve McQueen