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Ecstasy unlimited
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- Moving images
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Laura Kipnis
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MS-3-46, 1980-008
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1 videocassette (16 min.) : col., U-matic, mono
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Biographical history
Laura Kipnia is a cultural critic who focuses on sexual politics, aesthetics, emotion, acting out, and bad behaviour. She has published six books on these topics. Kipnis is currently a professor in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University, where she teaches filmmaking. She has also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Michigan. She has been a visiting professor at New York University, Columbia University School of the Arts, University of British Columbia and the School of the Art Institute. Her education includes a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Custodial history
The tape was donated to the Dalhousie University Archives in 2013 by the Centre for Art Tapes.
Scope and content
Item is a video work created by Laura Kipnis in 1980. According to a conversation with Liz MacDougall on February 11th, 2007, the tape was the artists final NSCAD project. The video is about prostitution, sex, and power.
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- English
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Video can be viewed at the Dalhousie University Archives. Advance notice is required.
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Copyright is held by the artists.