"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 JOHN BALDESSARI 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, Conceptual Art, 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 City, 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 Nam June Paik there be a wone first prize at the Atlanta Film Festival. moment of silence, except for punch lines, and Joseph Beuys 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 Documenta 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.