Video

Peepers

John Watt

1973, 15:00 minutes, B&W, Silent

TAPECODE 158.04

This tape is a close-up of the artist's eyes staring directly at the
camera until tears form from the strain. The tears drop onto the lens, diffusing the image.

Included in the Art Gallery of Ontario's 'Videoscape" exhibition 1974, the first major survey of video art in Canada, was purchased for their collection.

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Critical Writing

First-generation Video
by Carole Corbeil. The Globe and Mail, June 14, 1988.
First-generation video
by Carole Corbeil. The Globe and Mail, June 14, 1986.
Introduction
by Renee Baert. Vintage Video: Early Canadian Video Art to 1974, 1986. Toronto: Artculture Resource Centre, 1986.
Video is not television, Performance is not theatre
by Martha Fleming and Douglas Durand. Body Politic, June 1980, no. 64.
Structural Videotape in Canada
by Eric Cameron. Video Art: An Anthology, 1976. Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.