Compendium of thoughts on video art. Edited and with text by Elke Town. Additional texts by Tom Sherman, Barbara London, Stuart Marshall, Klaus vom Bruch, Judith Barry, Raymon Bellour, General Idea, Jean-Paul Fargier, Dan Graham, Helmut Friedel, Peggy Gale, Colin Campbell, and Chris Dercon. ... [details]
Catalogue from 1985 offering for rental and sale 200 video programs by 85 independent producers of experimental video as well as back issues of Video Data Banks publication "Profile." Artists include Vito Acconci, Chantal Akerman,Max Almy, Laurie Anderson, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Betty Asher, Dore Ashton, Alice Aycock, Myrna Bain, John Baldessari, Jennifer Bartlett, Gregory Battcock, Romare Bearden, Billy Al Bengston, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Louise Bourgeois, Stan Brakhage, Joan Brown, Roger Brown, John Cage, Judy Chicago, Christo, Chuck Close, A. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 1982. Traveled February 16 - March 18, 1983, Language Plus, Québec, Canada, February 26 - March 27, 1983, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada; August 1 - April 30, 1983, Production Raélisations Indépendantes de Montréal, Canada. ... [details]
"Special Issue : Brand New York," of The Literary Review published in 1982 and edited by Gillian Greenwood. Contents include: "Editorial," by Lisa Appignanesi; "Between Two New Yorks," by Melvyn Bragg; "Manhattan Letter," by Elizabeth Hardwick; "New York Art: Seven Types of Ambiguity," by Hal Foster; "Urban Kisses," by John Ahearn, Mike Glier, Ken Goodman, Keith Haring, Robert Longo, Judy Rifka, Cindy Sherman; "On Being Scene: New York Fashions Its Steyle," by Michael Sorkin; "Philip Johnson's Post-Modernist Venture;" "Reflecting on Post-Modernism," an interview with Rosalind Krauss; "New York: Heroic City," by Rosetta Brooks; "A Hunger for Imagery," an interview with Brooke Alexander; "Graffiti in Well-Lit Rooms," by Suzi Gablik, includes artists statements and brief introductions to artists including Keith Haring, Jean Michel Basquiat, Wasp, Tim Rollins, Futura 2000, and Fab 5 Fred; "Laurie Anderson: Big Science and Little Men," by Stuart Morgan; "Crossing Over: The Streets, Clubs and Art," by Edit deAk; "New York Performs;" "From Dreamgirls to Satyagraha," an interview with Michael Feingold; "On My Efforts," by Richard Foreman; "Beyond the Theatrical Avant-Garde," by Richard Schechner; "Nuclear Theatre," by Bonnie Marranca; "Serialism, Spontaneity and Sass," by Robert Christgau; "Tailored for Television: The World of New York Video," by Arlene Zeichner; "Mean Streets, Dream Structures: New York Film," by J. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held May 9 - July 16, 1981. Exhibition examines the social, cultural, and political elements of the sixties that birthed the "alternative" movement -- specifically Gain Ground, Apple, 98 Greene Street, 112 Greene Street Workshop, Idea Warehouse, 3 Mercer -- and charts the effects it had on the art world. ... [details]
Catalogue published in conjunction with a conference entitled "Multidisciplinary Aspects of Performance : Postmodernism" held in Montreal, Canada, October 9 -11, 1980. Edited by Chantal Pontbriand. Texts by Thierry de Duve, Birgit Pelzer, Bruce Barber, Craig Owens, Régis Durand, Benjamin H. ... [details]
Edited by General Idea, AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal. Essays "The Schizo and Language," by Louis Wolfson; "The Primal Speech," by Jean-Pierre Brisset; "On the Current Symbolic Status of Oil," by Duncan Smith; "The Future of Machine / The Telaxic Synapsulator is the First Meta-Machine," by Kenneth King; "The Start of a 27 Volume Analysis of "Everything"," by Richard Foreman; "Measuring Tape / Filmstrip," by Stuart Sherman; "Giving Thought a Language," by Stuart Sherman, interviewed by Sylvere Lotringer; "Stalin Gazing Enigmatically on the Body of Lenin," by Art Language; "My Vacation," by Mark Beyer; "Most Evil Vehicle," by John Scott; "Mrs. ... [details]
Single sided flyer published (1980?) in conjunction with an interpretive performance, "3=1 (A Careful Misreading)" by Stuart Sherman. Program features excerpts of text by Stefan Brecht, Edwin Denby, and Peter Frank. [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Artists Space, New York, 1980. Traveled to University of Hartford, Hartford Art School. Curated by Barry Rosen. Artists include, with text by each artist: Barry Rosen, Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Beth B, John Baldessari, Marge Dean, Guy De Cointet, Bruce Fier, Bob George, Jack Goldstein, Alison Knowles, Micke McGee, Jim Pomeroy, Jim Roche, Martha Rosler, Stuart Sherman, Michael Smith, Mimi Smith, Keith Sonnier, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Reese Williams. ... [details]
Anthology of theatrical/performative scripts and documents conceived as of as a companion to Breakthrough Fictioneers and Essaying Essays. Compiled and edited by Richard Kostelantz. Features contributions by Marina Abramovic, Ulay, Blair H. ... [details]