"I haven't used the steel in a long time. ..the time has ". ..the pluse test : feel for pulse. There is none ." "Man in office .. . holding a package .. .two windows come." behind him . . .apprehension. ..Iittletoo dramatic .. ."

CRIME TIME COMIX: STEEL & GUN SHOW ED HENDERSON SUGGESTS FLESH (198015 :30 color) SOUND TRACKS FOR (198012:00 color) PHOTOGRAPHS JULES BACKUS & WILLIAM (1973 30:00 B/W) DANA ATCHLEY, HANK BULL FARLEY & ERIC METCALFE San Francisco, California Crested Butte, Colorado/Vancouver, Santa Monica, California British Columbia "Bill Farley is a Bay Area artist and independent filmmaker whose work has been shown na- A painter until the mid-sixties, since then he Dana Atchley is an independent producer tionally and internationally . Jules Backus is an has worked in a wide variety of media. He has whose company, Network TV, has artist and independent video producer whose been making video tapes since 1970. Currently documented numerous art performances and work has been shown nationally and interna- teaching at California Institute for the Arts. activities such as those of Willie Walker and tionally ." Lowell Darling's run for governor of California . SUGGESTS is a collaborative attempt to find Eric Metcalfe is a Canadian artist based at the A short, impressionistic profile of some of the appropriate sound/musical effect for random Western Front in Vancouver . Steel & Flesh was people who attended the California Gun Show photographs, an effort to create a harmonious produced with funds provided by the Canada in L.A . in May, 1980 . At the last minute, the marriage between the two . Council and the National Endowment for the video crew was denied access to the show by Arts. the sponsors who felt threatened by adverse publicity . As a result, the tape does not show ". ..a highly-polished, fetish laden drama the over 2000 booths and displays, but does focusing on Metcalfe's teenage detective- succeed in reflecting certain of the per- comic fantasies . The work successfully defuses sonalities . its inherent voilence but fortunately never over= comes the sense of decadent viciousness that forms the core of the narrative ." - David Ross

"The new red banner for now is polyester."

THURSDAY MORNING BOBS SCRATCH MESSAGE TO CHINA (1980 25 :00 color) (1980 6:00 color) (1979 23 :00 color)

BOB & BOB ANTE BOZANICH SUSAN BRITTON Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, California Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Performance artists in Los Angeles, Bob & Bob Ante is a Los Angeles artist currently working BFA Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. have worked as a duo for the past five years . with video. He is a recipient of a 1979 NEA Presently living in Toronto concentrating on They are best known, aside from their live grant and a past recipient of a Ford Foundation new work. Video tapes and photographs have work, for their drawings, writing and travel grant. been widely exhibited throughout Canada, in videotapes. New York and Europe . Her tape CASTING 'SCRATCH is an attempt to relieve the con- CALL is in the Bienalle de Paris. "The two Bobs are seen sitting on a couch next tinuous irritations and tensions our contem- to each other. Every thirty seconds the porary environment infects us with ." -A .B . "The dialectic works in mysterious ways. A wit- background music changes . One of the Bobs is ty and ironic piece commemorating the vice- perpetually pleasant and happy while the other premiere's celebrated visit to the U.S. The is anxious, perturbed and bothered . . .It is a senile American future is looking bright, and videotape about the way people relate to hav- the bourgoisie make excellent teachers, but ing an environment thrust upon them ." - David first, those who own the forces of production Ross want to know, 'Will that be cash .. .or Charge- BIG WRENCH ABSTRACT CITY WINDOWS TELLING TALES (197915 :00 color) (1980 6:30 color) (1979 27:00 color)

CHRIS BURDEN JACK CAMPBELL ELIZABETH CHITTY Los Angeles, California Berkeley, California Toronto, Ontario/Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lecturer at UCLA, 1978. NEA, Visual Arts, The artist has been making videotapes for three 1980-81, 1976-77, 1974-75. Guggenheim years and is currently an engineer at Television Elizabeth is primarily a performance artist Fellowship, , 1978-79. Associates . working occasionally with video.

Created live at the studios of KTSF-TV, San The work combines two ideas the artist is in- Produced at Vancouver's Western Front during Francisco as part of the series Produced For terested in: one is time, playing with showing Chitty's 1979 residency there. "Beginning with Television (produced by La Mamelle), BIG two time frames of a single situation the written word...and including many of the WRENCH relates the tale of Burden's obsession simultaneously . The other is the abstract effect implements of information storage available in with a 16,000 pound freight truck. The tape which has been achieved after two years of our culture .. .TELLING TALES illustrates that takes us through the story, which is true, from work toward that end . process and enables us to receive the abun- the time the artist obtains the rig to its eventual dance of narrative information in our lives with sale. heightened awareness ." - Jane Ellison

"Does intimacy breed obscurity?" "From 'Finnegan s Wake,' a term now used by "Art is the politics of the impossible." physiciststo denote elemental particles in nature."

DELICATE ISSUE QUARKS CAMPAIGN TAPES (197912:00 color) (1980 8:00 color) (1980 30:00 color)

KATE CRAIG PETER D'AGOSTINO LOWELL DARLING Vancouver, B.C ., Canada , New York Oakland, California

Kate Craig is a Canadian video artist and Video One of the country's more active video and Lowell is an artist who has worked in various Director of the Western Front in Vancouver, performance artists (late of San Francisco and media, employing, as he says, wichever tool is since 1973 an important artist run center for the Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio), Peter needed to get the job done. He has been utiliz- presentation and production of new art activity. has been teaching at the university level since ing video "since it came out ." 1973, is a frequent guest lecturer at various col- The work is an exploration of the artist's body leges, exhibits continuously, and has published Using a hand on a stick to save his grip, and ar- with an extreme close-up lens . The sound track two books: Alpha, Trans, Chung and QUBE tificial lips to kiss babies so he wouldn't get includes 24 voice over questions posed by Kate in addition to many articles. He has received a Pablum all over his new suits, Darling stumped about the idea of closeness, on and off the number of research, travel and NEA grants, and the state for four months in his 1956 pink-and- screen . The tension created by this forced in- is currently working in NYC . black Plymouth, doing whatever it is that politi- timacy poses the question well . cians do. In this long awaited edit (sponsored 'The structure of QUARKS is based on 30- by VIDEO 80) of the various tapes from second intervals, the most common time unit Lowell's campaign, we see the Announcement for TV commercials. Three layers of informa- Speech on the Art Museum lawn in Berkeley, tion - sound, image and written texts - are the infamous Sore Loser speech at Breen's Bar presented within the structure . ..Although this in SF, and footage from the action in between . can be viewed as an analysis or critique of TV, my primary intent is to provide the viewer'with a unique television experience open to many interpertations and possible resolutions ." -P. D.'A. "It's really good to see you. ..you're lookinggreat."

SOUND FACTORY GOES TO THE LAST NINE MINUTES THIRD AVENUE: ONLY THE GUISEPPE'S (1977 9:00 color) STRONG SURVIVE (1980 27:00 color) (1980 58:00 color) DOUGLAS DAVIS JASON DAUMAN New York City DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY Beverly Hills, California TV CENTER Davis is an artist, writer and art teacher . As an New York City, New York A recent graduate of Beverly Hills High, with artist, he has worked intensively in video (both no previous training in television, in live telecasting and in closed-circuit museum Jason is the Videotapes produced by DCTV have been seen Host of his own TV Talk Show on and gallery installations), performance, print- Theta Cable by more than 70 million people in more than a in Los Angeles . making and drawing since the mid-60s . dozen countries . In 1979 they had 35 programs broadcast on PBS and NBC. THIRD AVENUE "This kid had the goods. He never let In June, 1977, he joined with there be a wone first prize at the Atlanta Film Festival. moment of silence, except for punch lines, and in creating an extraordinary following every question with another live telecast transmitted via satellite to more ques- Third Avenue runs 16 miles through Brooklyn, tion .. .the perfect replica of a good than 25 countries . The program, which opened television Manhattan, and the Bronx. The lives of six very talk show host." - Ben Stein 6, concluded with Davis' per- different people who live or work on Third Andy Warholian nightmare, everyone with his formance, THE LAST NINE MINUTES . Ave. are portrayed . Their stories dramatize the own TV show! hard reality of survival in the urban America . "There is more drama, more life, more love and passion in this short hour than in a weeks worth of prime time pot boiling ." - The Washington Post

"The effect iscuriously jolting" "...Carter had announced at a White House press gathering, 'Bert, I'm proud of you ."'

DESIRE SETS UP AFIRE POLONIUM HOLES AND ENTRANCES (1980 29 :00 color) (198010:00 color) (1980 25:00 B/W)

HELEN DE MICHIEL DANIEL DION & PHILIPPE TERRY FOX Salana Beach, California POLONI New York City Montral, Quebec, Canada De Michiel is a graduate of the Masters Pro- One of America's best known performance gram of UC San Diego. She has been exhibiting Dion has been making video since 1976, and and video artist ; recipient of NEA Individual her video since 1977, and is currently in the has in the past worked in collaboration with Artist, NEA Video, SECA (San Francisco), "Biennale de Paris" selection of California Daniel Guimond . Philippe has been working Adeline Kent (San Francisco), DAAD (year in Video. She has been a recipient of a Louis B. with video since 1978. Berlin) . Mayer foundation grant for video 1978, 1979, 1980 . The tape fully utilized the techniques inherent Originally made in 1978, the tape incorporates and possible in Yz" editing . "The work uses a changing audio tract, the present one dubbed "The daily elements that make up a hand held camera work in which the recording over in August 1980 and to be erased at the romance/desire/love/melodrama accumulate of the main subject(s) is as important as captur- close of VIDEO 80. and are simultaneously broken into fragments ing the enviornment in which the actions take - dialogues, quotes, monologues, place. The camera framing and the alteration of memories .. .these are scenerios and moments time . in editing, enhance, loosen and pur- The recording medium, in my opi- from 'real life love lives' that seem to barely posefully fragments the work ." - Paul Wong nion, will be in plastic. It will sort of border on cliche, but turn around on "In POLONIUM scenes and characters activate be a hologram that has high density themselves, and the mediated images they con- to become beings strangly shaken by any digital information on plastic that, no stantly refer to." - H . D M. phenomenon . Elements and characters in their doubt, Eastman Kodak will invent so specific enviornments madly occupy they can sell it, and no doubt it will themselves in delirium . The text is instrumental be disposable. is describing the principle of contamination ." - D. D. "What has$80,000 got todo with sex?" "More and more artists are turning to popular media in an effort to examine the effectiveness of their work."

DETAILS II TEST TUBE TRAVELS (1980 30:00 color) (1979 30:00 color) (1978/80 28 :00 color)

HOWARD FRIED GENERALIDEA SHALOM GOREWITZ San Francisco, California Toronto, Ontario, Canada New York City

BFA San Francisco Art Institute; MFA UC Davis General Idea is a group of artists, in this case National Endowment for the Arts, Individual and Syracuse University. Numerous one man AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal . Artist Fellowship, 1978-79 . New York State shows and is currently teaching video and per- Council Video Production Grant 1980, 77, 76. formance at SFAI . "In this work the artists use media to create a Visiting Artist, Experimental Television Center, complex visual portrait of the artist in the Owego, N .Y. The work is described as an arrangement of eighties . The program is hosted by the three in a men and women trying to probe the dillema of setting of an unusal bar, the Colour Bar TRAVELS is composed of 5 short pieces about sex and economics . Cocktail Lounge, in which the walls and floors movement, energy, environment and ex- have been replaced with electronically perience. Recorded expressionistically ; generated colour . In this video enviornment, memories electronically manipulated and pro- they are watching television, but the show they cessed ; sequenced in nonlinear narratives of are watching is a story that they themselves rhythmic audio/visual patterns . have constructed, about a woman artist and the dilemmas she encounters in her very modern life ." - Video Guide. Produced at De Appel, Amsterdam, Holland .

". ..reported that the use of architecture is on the rise." "There is no Bronze Plaque forwhat I do." "It's a kind ofstacking."

THE AMARILLO NEWS TAPES MORNING AROUND &ABOUT (1980 28:00 color) (1980 3:32 color) (1980 4:45 color)

DOUG HALL, CHIP LORD & KAREN HELMERSON GARY HILL JODY PROCTER Seattle, Washington Barrytown, New York San Francisco, California Awards in '77 Northwest Film and Video National Endowment for the Arts 1977-79 . The artists have collaborated on many per- Festival and in '80 First National Seattle Video Athens International Film Festival, 1976, merit formance, installation and video works, and Shorts . award. Numerous group and one-man shows. were associated with T.R. UTHCO (1970-1978) and ANTFARM (1968-1978), with Diane An- MORNING is a video poem, an illustration of A spoken test and "random room image" ex- drews Hall . Their past work includes "The concept-flash, or comprehension in rhythmic pand and contract and open and close one Cadillac Ranch," 1974, "The Eternal Frame," moment . "Much like how the mind works," another, seeking grounds for re-establishing a 1976 and "Media Burn," 1975 . through fragmented imagery to form an relationship of continuity with the viewer . understanding . "The work is the result of their Artist-In- Residency at the Amarillo television station owned by Texas businessman and art co- conspirator Stanley Marsh 3. The results of their residency with the pro-news team form both a moving account as well as a humorous view of TV's primary function-to inform ." - David Ross "The mind was a tragic event in the evolution of the "Make it simple, make it quick, make it easy, make it "How did the Kipper Kids species." comeabout?" safe" "Hey, don't worry about it."

FOUR THIRTY SECOND INSTANT THIS - INSTANT YOUR TURN TO ROLL IT MUSICALS THAT NUMBER 57 (1980 2:00 color) (1980 4:00 color) (1979 55:00 color)

PETER IVERS & HOWARD ELLEN KAHN/LYNDA KAHN THE KIPPER KIDS SMITH (ADVANCE ARTISTS) New York City Venice, California Los Angeles, California Tapes shown at Ithaca Video Festival, 1980 and Well known performance artists from Southern Known in the underground Video Space, Seattle, Washington, 1980. rock world as a Na- California, recipients of NEA Grants, British futurist, Peter has been working tional Endowment for the Arts, with "videos" Concep- Arts Council and Arts Council of Canada . for the last three years. He hosts "New Wave tual/Performance, 1980. Theatre" on Theta Cable in L.A., and in March The work is a document of a live performance will be Artist-in-Residence "The tape features Nancy and at Radliffe where he Susie Twinart as by Harry & Harry, The Kippers, at the Universi- will produce "Alladin" as a New Wave ballet. the "demo duo" going through their daily ty Art Museum, Berkeley . The state camera is Graduate of Harvard routines in an instant life . University and recipient Rapid editing is used intercut with interview shot in the shower after of a 1980 NEA Grant. so the viewer may experience a multitude of TV the show (interviewer is David Ross). commercials compacted into four minutes . The Produced by the Long Beach Museum of Art as soundtract is the song INSTANT THIS - INS- 30 second "Art Spots" to be aired on commer- TANT THAT written by Durand/DeSoto and cial TV, these collaborative efforts were created performed by the band Taste Test." - E.&L . K. in one day. The piece is comprised of four songs in the rock mode.

"I'm so cold I can'thear you ." "...she just sort of, uh, chases after anything ...scor- "My aim is to reach through the Border ." ing. .." Art "I'm always on the lookout for new people ...He calls it a hustle ." AX DEEP GOSSIP JOSEPH BEUYS : (1979 25:00 color) DIALOGUE (1979 54:00 color) WITH AUDIENCE (1980 50:00 color and PAUL KOS LES LEVINE B/W) San Francisco, California New York City GIANFRANCO MANTEGNA, Video and sculpture installation KIM HALSEY & ARLENE KREBS since 1%9, Born in Ireland, educated in London, living and often using the New York City, New audience's actions or responses working in NYC, Levine first produced video York as part of the work. NEA Fellowships 1973, art in 1%5 . He has produced as well en- 1976. G.M has shown art works Currently teaching performance and vironments, process pieces, systems pieces, extentively in the video at San U .S. and Europe ; K.S. is a Francisco Art Institute. outdoor actions, and films. Les introduced the media specialist and independent filmmaker ; A.K. is an terms "disposable art," camera art," and "soft- indepen- The work is the dent video maker. artists attempt to describe to the ware art,' and regards himself as a "media viewer in a visceral way, using video and sculptor ." He is currently President of The New A audio, the plight of the Donner Party. Museum of Mott Art, Inc . in New York. documentary of the lecture/discussion led by Joseph Beuys at the Cooper Union's Great Hall on 7 January, 1980. In this tape, he "DEEP GOSSIP is a video novel about the pro- debates with an American audience his views cess of making relationships and making art; on freedom, creativity and existence - about the strategies young artists have for the beliefs that form the foundation of his theory developing their relationships, and how this ef- of 'social sculpture.' fects theirart-making process . Interestingly, the view they give of their personal lives gives some insight into their art ." - L.L. "My main activity these days is looking out this win- "Could I please order, a chocolate malted .. . was that dow. . .as an artist stares at his canvas ." 0.0"

1979 ROCKY WAITING AT THE SODA (1979 8:00 color) (1977 20:00 color) FOUNTAIN (1979 29:00 color) TOM MARION I PAUL MCCARTHY San Francisco, California Pasadena, California SUSAN MOGUL Los Angeles, California Artist, curator, founder of the Museum of Con- Co-founder of H .A .A . and Close Radio. Per- ceptual Art, Tom is well known for his work in formances done in Europe, New York and BFA California Institute of the Arts ; MFA UC a variety of media: paint, music, video and California. Began doing performances in 1968; San Diego. Active in the Woman's Building. time and space. Currently on tour in Northern began doing video in 1971 . Currently Co- Has been working with videotape sculpture Europe . ordinator of Performances at L.A .I.C .A. and installation since 1976.

1979 is a lovingly romantic look at the artist as A reaction to the motion picture "Rocky ." The videotape was created from footage of a he leaves the old decade for the new . He is live performance at the Columbia Coffee Shop seen outside his studio window, looking on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood . The per- through the window, and again, at end, walk- formance took place during regular business ing the same familiar steps to a score of soft hours of the coffee shop, and involves a jazz. Camerwork by Sharon Grace. screentest by a stereotypical '30's Director (Ms Mogul).

"Maybe he'll find a piece of meat just like himself to walk along side him ."

LONER RICOCHET ONE MAN'S MAGIC IS (1980 30:00 color) (1980 2 :00 color) ANOTHER MAN'S SCIENCE (198017:00 color) TONY OURSLER PATTI PODESTA Hollywood, California Los Angeles, California TONY RAMOS New York City, New York Tony Oursler studied at California Institute of Studied at Pitzer College and Claremont the Arts. He has been making video tapes since Graduate School ; has been making video tapes Taught with alan Kaprow at Cal Arts 1971-71 ; 1976 and has exhibited throughout the United and exhibiting since 1978 . Worked in video performance till 1974; moved States. He is currently in the 'California Video' to NYC where he is now working. show . In RICOCHET, a performance by the artist done expressly for the camera, Ms Podesta uses "In my tapes I attempt to develop a different Replete with expressionistic props and childish her body as metaphor for the assaults of life . preception of events .. .The information tells a fantasy, the tape reveals the absurd life of the The brutality of the impact of her body against story, but it is not developed as a linear nar- LONER, rejected by his parents, assaulted by the walls and the obvious pain this inflicts is of- rative. life, the supreme loser. A personal tradi-comic fset by the sensuality of the movement of the ONE MAN'S MAGIC is a mixture of revolu- rendition of modern misery . flesh and the excellent soundtract used to ac- tionary Tehran and the good life of sunny company the piece. Southern California. The tape describes culture, but it is not a documentary in the tradi- tional sense. Instead, it combines documentary and staged situations, performance details and found media culled from TV and film, the variety used to pace the tape and, it is hoped, give a glimpse into the inside of space." T.R. "This...is Target Video!"

UNDERGROUND FORCES LOTUS-KNOSPENTONE OLYMPIC FRAGMENTS (1980 40:00 color) (SOUNDS OF LOTUS) (198012 :00 color) (197917:00 color) JOE REES/TARGET VIDEO JOHN SANBORN & San Francisco, California ULRIKE ROSENBACH KIT FITZGERALD Koln, West Germany New York City, New York Performance artist since the mid-seventies, Joe has been working in Ulrike Rosenbach is one of video since 1976. A win- West Germany's Installations and tapes shown in New York, ner of the Moebius most prolific and influential artists She Video Show, 1979 and reci- . has per- Paris, London and California . Artists-in- pient of the 1980 Adeline formed extentively throughout the world, Kent Award. Current- and Residence at WNET Television Lab since 1977. ly slowing at FNAC, Paris, France . has been working with video since 1972 . This winter she will be in the United States through Commissioned by the National Fine Arts Com- the auspices of 'Documentation' of New Music and political the Goethe Institute. mittee of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, this events, Target's work extends far beyond the excellent example of post-production techni- normal In LOTUS, Ms Rosenbach boundaries of the document, as the is framed full face que combines with fine camera work to create edited close up seen holding programs released by Rees become his two objects (perhaps a piece, always cognizant of the subject and its personal caneles?) before her . statements. The tight structure of the These she randomly proper rendering, which serves to illustrate the camera strikes, one against the other, work, the rapid fire editing and the while the sould of failure of commercial television to properly strategic wood blocks clapping echos placement of music performance, col- . We become cover even those events with which it is most lage and interview all combine to produce aware that the action and the sound are identified . some of the most exciting, original and impor- perhaps not coordinated, though we are not tant work of the new decade . certain . We are pulled farther and farther into the tape as we anticipate the action and the sound in an attempt to become sure of their relationship .

"My Dad brought me the future." "The cadre is the answer to the question Where have all the radicals gone?"

WARM COFFEE & THE CALL IT SLEEP : PART 4, THE : THE BIG FUTURE CADRE WHEEL (1980 3:00 color) (198011 :00 color) (1980 28:00 color)

ILENE SEGALOVE TERREL SELTZER & ISAAC WILLOUGHBY SHARP Venice, California CRONIN New York City Berkeley, California Video artist from Southern California, has The artist has worked in video and performance worked mostly with her family as subjects . Terrel has been working in film and video for "since way back." In the first half of the last Created CAULIFLOWER ALLEY with Lowell 12 years; Issac has been concerned with the decade he published 'AVALANCHE,' edited by Darling . Her work is currently on exhibit as part "social question" for 12 years, and sees his Liza Bear . This work was produced by Sharp- of the "California Video" show at the Bienalle video as one expression of that concern . Com in NYC in association with National de Paris . Video Industries. Willoughby Sharp, Director ; "The work takes the form of a video essay Robert Burden, Camera and Editing; Alfred Ilene continues her tradition of humor in these directed at the definition of an ideological sub- Vazques, Jr., Darrell Perry and Larry Busch, two short sketches, one with her father and the class. The fourth part of a projected five part Production Assistants. other with her mother. The ambience of work, THE CADRE uses a disjunctive narrative modern middle America is rendered with love structure to describe the character and forma- This is the most mature program of a ten year and understanding . tion of the cadre's defining traits . A visually series begun at San Jose State in May of 1970 elegant work, the tape works well as a state- with a one hour studio program with Bruce ment of the relationship of style to ideology as Nauman and continuing with a series of in- well as a rather pointed yet humorous indict- dividual programs with Joseph Beuys (1971), ment of a prevailing form of intellectual (1972), Van Schley and Chris dishonesty ." - David Ross Burden (1973) and Dennis Oppenheim (1974) and a PBS mini-series of 1/2 hour TV programs on Vito Acconi, , Willoughby Sharp, Keith Sonier and William Wegman (1976 to the present) .

28 "Another night ofdreams . I could not remember them when I got up. .."

SECRET HORROR SIGNED, SEALED AND ANOTHER NIGHT OF (198013 :30 color) DELIVERED DREAMS (1980 40:00 color & B/W) (198010:00 color) MICHAEL SMITH New York City, New York TAMI GOLD, ERIK LEWIS AND IRVIN TEPPER DAN CORDON San Francisco, California Performance, exhibitions and video works in Jersey City, New Jersey the United States and Canada since 1975. NEA Irvin Tepper has been working in video since Artist Fellowship, 1978. Will host his own TV The three principals, each with a brief history 1972 . His tapes have won awards at the SF Art show on cable in NYC in late 1980. of working with video, together comprise Festival and are in the collections of the San Tamerik Productions . This is their first com- Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the "SECRET HORROR relates the misadventures pleted project as a group . Tami Cold won First Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art. He also of a New York character cross bred from the ar- Place in the 1972 Leipzig . makes drawings and writes stories . chetype Jerry Lewis schlep and the Roger Cor- man victim . Smith is the victim of a series of Subtitled LABOR STRUGGLE IN THE POST OF- A deliberate, loving camera caresses the room terrors so personal and ideosyncratic that they FICE, the work is a strong example of video us- where supposedly the heroine of the story, who could easily pass for mundane if it were not for ed as a social tool for the creation of supportive is never seen, only heard, resides. These im- their mock signification as existential dilemmas information to be passed from group to group. ages of her ordinary life are placed against a of the first order." - David Ross soundtrack of a woman reading from her diary, the details of her ordinary life . The words are taken from an actual dairy found by the artist on Mission street in San Francisco .

"The sexiest organ is our brain ." "She jerked, let out a bloody scream . ..and ran, into the bathroom, giggling herself to death."

LADYBUG: BURLESQUE AR- BEST FRIEND CANTALOUP TIST (1980 6:50 color) (1980 24:00 color) (1979 22 :00 color) NEECY TWINEM STEINA AND WOODY LYN TIEFENBACHER/DAVE San Francisco, California VASULKA PENTECOST Santa Fe, New Mexico New York City Assistant producer, Artists' Television Network ; studied at San Francisco Art Institute . Steina : Co-founder of The Kitchen, New York . Tapes in Ithaca Festival '80; shown in USA, Tapes shown in Europe and the United States . Mexico, Canada, France, Japan; in collections "BEST FRIEND portrays with gut feeling the Guggenheim Fellow in video, 1976. Grants of Musee d'Lhomme, Metropolitan Museum of back stabbing games that friends play with from NEA and from New York State Council on Art. each other. A best friend is the one you hang the Arts. With Woody, created programs for out with, laugh with, dance with and hold onto WNED, Buffalo, in 1979 . Performing puppet shows for children in the with one hand while hiding the blood stained day and dancing in a burlesque house at night, knife in the other." - N.T . The Vasulkas refer to the work as "a report on Ladybug has incorporated seemingly contradic- the development of real-time digital imaging ." tory aspects of the innocent and the wicked in- We see Steina seated before three monitors, her to a successful career . energenic and exciting personality narrating the progression of her work displayed behind her . This, intercut with full screen sections of the pieces she describes, renders a clear educa- tional videotape of great visual intensity . "So like I have this dream, you know? And there'sall these people I don't know, and they all seem to really digme .. ."

DREAM RELEASE TAPE SPEAK & SPELL BREATH NUMBER 3 (1980 60 :00 color) (197910:00 color) (1980 5:55 color)

WILLIE BOY WALKER KLAUS VOM BRUCH KEIGO YAMAMOTO Oakland, California Koln, West Germany Fukui City, Japan

Since 1973 Willie has supported himself by ex- Has worked in video since 1975 . Studied at Keigo was one of the first Japanese artists to hibiting his films and videotapes and through California Institute of the Arts under John work with video, beginning in 1972 . He workshops and lectures . He has had three Baldessari and , 1975-76. Has teaches art at a high school in Fukui City, out- shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art performed and exhibited widely in America side Kyoto. His work has been shown exten- in New York, Documenta 1977, Internationales and throughout Europe . sively throughout the world. in Berlin 1978, Project '74 in Koln, Whitney Biannual in 1977, and numerous shows We see on the screen an oil rig pumping the A .seemingly innocuous computer image of throughout Canada and the United States, NEA ground, over and over, the same sequence hand movements becomes a metaphor for the Fellow 1975 and 1979 . looped . Keyed over this repetitive image are entire range of human emotion and thought. titles from the Atari game SPEAK&SPELL. The The artist states he would be very pleased if DREAM RELEASE is a collection of Willie's viewer becomes part of the tape, an active, people found his work humorous . latest six works, including his already legen- eager participant. The machine spells . We dary LURE DE TOUR (with Dana Atchley's spell . The machine begins to deterioate, to always excellent camera work) and CHICAGO break down . The oil rig continues to pump the RELEASE, done while in residence at the ground . Chicago Editing Center . As always, Willie's humor overflows the screen, filled with people he has only just met and somehow has con- vinced to join his merriment.

VideoUAM Weekend Video Screening Schedule

"Are fags the only alternative?" Sunday, November 2, 1980 VIDEO 80 Selections DETAILS II, Howard Fried; LONER, Tony Oursler; THE FUTURE & WARM COFFEE, Ilene Segalove ; GARAGE SALE GARAGE SALE II : THE FUTURE II, Bruce & Norman Yonemoto; PLUS a new work by Terry OF MY DESIRE Fox, FLOWER DUMPLINGS . (1980 35 :00 color) Sunday, November 9,1980 JOANNE GILLERMAN BRUCE & NORMAN A group of synthesized and abstract works from the last 5 YONEMOTO years. Santa Monica, California TONY RAMOS Bruce: graduated Cal Berkeley and Otis Art In- Sunday, November 16,1980 stitute and Shokei Art Institute in Tokyo; A selection of works, including ABOUT MEDIA, ONE presently teaching at Occidental College. Nor- MAN'S MAGIC IS ANOTHER MAN'S SCIENCE . man: Studied at AFI, presently teaching at Sher- wood Oaks Experimental Film College. Sunday, November 23,1980 JOE REES/TARGET VIDEO Presents Target A sub-cultural odyssey of fetishes and far- sighted performances and video with Camille O'Grady, Jerry Dreva, Tony Oursler and Fred Sunday November 30,1980 TAKA IIMU RA Halsted. Videotapes and installation .

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