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1979, 26:00 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 123.07

The 1984 Miss General Idea Pageant is interrupted when the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion bursts into flames. Assembled from video documentation of performances at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (1977), the 5th Network Video Conference (1978) and of an outdoor installation in Kingston, Ontario (1977). In the format of television.

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Critical Writing

General Idea: Towards an Audience Vocabulary
by Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker. VIDEO re/VIEW: The (best) Source for Critical Writings on Canadian Artists' Video, 1996. Toronto: Art Metropole & V tape, 1996.
Test Tube: Towards an Audience Vocabulary
by Robert Handforth. Fuse, Mar. 1980, v. 4, no. 3.