The Australian Video Festival, 1987. ALLAN VIZENTS - ASLEEP AND AWAKE (1983)
The Australian Video Festival, 1987. Dominik Barbier The Red Shield (1987)Curated by Brian Langer
Works for the 12th Biennale of Sydney were selected by a panel of international curators and directors and included Fumio Nanjo, Louise Neri, Hetti Perkins, Sir Nicholas Serota, Robert Storr, Harald Szeemann and Nick Waterlow [chair]. Major video installation pieces by artists such as Mariko Mori were included.
Curated by Isabel Carlos. Various venues including the Art Gallery of NSW and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
"The exhibition focused on artists who use fictions, fakes, invented methodologies and experiments as a basis for their work. The projects celebrated the potential of the creative act to generate alternative worlds, suggesting that our everyday belief systems may be constructed, hallucinatory and changeable." [BOS Website]. Curated by Richard Grayson...
The sixth and last in the series of video festivals initiated and managed by the Electronic Media Arts (Australia) organisation.
Tim Burns is an Australian artist who has long regarded his role as being to provoke the public into thinking about social issues. Many of his works have been controversial while showing a wry humour and a tendency towards the dangerous. He began making video while he was involved with...
Artistic director Tony Bond's vision for the 9th Biennale of Sydney was to reflect a shift from the art making centres of Europe and the USA to countries whose artists had not been represented in previous Biennales. "Work of controversial artists such as Orlan, examined transgressions of conceptual and cultural...
The Australian International Video Festival, 1991 - Video Installation Peter Callas - Our Potential Allies (1980 & 1991)
Sculpture with motorized turntable video camera and monitor.
Accidents For Four (1976) Studio, San Francisco; Spectator performances to instructions; recorded to video. [December, 1976] Photos: Bryan Hillstrom Sponsored by the Neighbourhood Arts Foundation, San Francisco.
Accidents For One (1976) Performance with live video."Open Studios", South of Market Series, Neighbourhood Arts Foundation, San Francisco, USA. Camera: Mark GillilandFlute: Carla Harryman Almorative Dance (1976), 1/2” B&W, 20 mins.Video: instructions for the performance: Accidents For One. Produced at the Bay Area Video Coalition.
The Constriction series is a work in four manifestations Constriction Part 1 (1982), 3/4” U-matic, colour, 14 mins.
Desire The Code (1981), 3/4” U-matic, colour. Performance installation with pre-recorded video display; atSite, Cite, Sight, Inc, San Francisco. Documentation: Mark Samuelson,Sound: Allan Scarritt and Jill Scott,Sponsors: The Bay Area Video Coalition and Site, Cite, Sight Inc. San Francisco. Also at: International Cultureel Centrum (Artist in Residence), Antwerp, Belgium.
Double Time (1985) Video tape and Installation with spectator interaction.
Order The Underfire (1980) (1979?), 3/4” U-matic, colour. Performance installation with video at University of California at Davis, California, with sound from a Revolving Desert Simulator, shadow play and video stills. Photos: Mike Henderson, Funded by the Visiting Artists Program of the University of California at Davis, USA.
Recent Australian Video InstallationAustralian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. The exhibition was specifically “mounted to coincide with the visit of Mr John Hanhardt, Curator of Film and Video at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the tour of the Whitney exhibition, New American Video: A Historical Survey, 1967 – 1980.”1
Triple Fate (1986) Single monitor Installation with game, water, sound, video and photographs.
