Video

Survival of the Delirious

Andy Fabo and Michael Balser

1988, 15:00 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 831.01

A collaboration between a video artist and an artist who works primarily in painting and drawing. This collaboration has produced a mix of narratives which receates the delirium of the AIDS epidemic. The Cree myth of a cannibalistic demon (Windigo) becomes a macabre metaphor for the virus and its psychological affects.

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Critical Writing

Ruling Out Art: Media Art Meets Law in Ontario's Censor Wars
by Taryn Sirove. Vacouver: UBC Press, 2019.
After AIDS: Michael Balser and Andy Fabo's "Stamina"
by Darien Taylor. Fuse, Apr. 1999, v. 23, no. 1.
Mirror Machine: Video and Identity
by Janine Marchessault. Toronto: YYZ Books, 1996.
Fabo, Balser to receive arts award for influence
by Val Ross. The Globe and Mail, Sept. 14, 1995.
The Wedding Album: Part 1 - The Ed Nasello Story
by Michael Balser. foreground, 1992.
The Video and Film by Artists series: Recent Acquisitions
by Susan Ditta. National Gallery of Canada, 1990.
Focus on Michael Balser
by Andrew J. Paterson. Canadian Art, Spring 1989, v. 6, no. 1.
Canadian Countercurrents: The Images '89 Festival
by Helen Lee. The Independent, Aug. 1989.
Images '89
by Donna Lypchuk. Cinema Canada, Sept. 1989.
Portrait of an artist in the age of AIDS
by John Bentley Mays. The Globe and Mail, May 6, 1989.
Recasting images of AIDS to counter media distortions
by Cameron Bailey. Now, Oct. 20, 1988, v. 8, no. 7.