Video

The Ballad Of Dan Peoples

Lisa Steele

1976, 08:12 minutes, B&W, English

TAPECODE 130.16

"I made this tape shortly after my grandfather's death as a memory of his voice and speech patterns. The tape is a woven song of sorts, made up of many stories that he told and retold to me when I was a child. The stories were about his childhood; the tape is more about how memory is transmitted and retained than about the specifics of any one particular narrative." L.S.

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Critical Writing

Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980
by Grant Arnold and Karen Henry. Edmonton: Art Gallery of Alberta, 2012.
Lisa Steele: The Conceptual Anthropology of Narrative Works, 1976-1982
by Joshua Thorson. Lisa Steele: The Conceptual Anthropology of Narrative Works, 1976-1982, 2010. Toronto: Vtape, 2010.
Lisa's Long Haul: Artist Lisa Steele talks to Sarah Milroy about...
by Sarah Milroy. The Globe and Mail, Feb. 19, 2005.
UK/ Canada Film & Video Exchange: South London Gallery
by Andrea Carson. C Magazine, Summer 2003, no. 78.
Video Primer: A Series of 5 Video Programs
by Michelle Jacques. Video Primer, 2001. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2001.
UNB Art Centre Exhibit Tells Stories on Videotape
by Unknown. The Daily Gleaner, Oct. 15, 1994.
Lisa Steele: Video Work is Ideal Postmodern Art Form
by Christina Barat. The Daily Gleaner, Oct. 29, 1994.
Video and Orality
by Peggy Gale. Canadian Art, Summer 1993, v. 10, no. 2.
Clock ticking on AGO video show
by Randi Spires. The Toronto Star, Jan. 12, 1990.
Collaborative Videotapes: Descriptions by the Artist
by Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak. 4 Hours and 38 Minutes, 1989. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1989.
Video In Canada: In Search of Authority: Descriptions by the Artist
by Renee Baert. From Sea to Shining Sea, 1986. Toronto: The Power Plant, 1986.
The Ballad Of Dan Peoples
by Lisa Steele. Toronto: Art Metropole, 1978.