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For the time being
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- Moving images
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David Clark
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MS-3-46, 2012-017
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1 disc (2 min., 59 sec.) : mp4
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Biographical history
David Clark is a media artist who utilizes the internet as a cinematic format. Clark also uses an experimental narrative form within his media work. Clark is a professor in Media Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Clark’s education includes Fine Arts in 1984 at the University of Calgary, a BFA in 1985 at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and a MFA in 1989 from the School of Art Institute of Chicago
Custodial history
The tape was donated to the Dalhousie University Archives in 2013 by the Centre for Art Tapes.
Scope and content
Item consists of a video recording by David Clark entitled "For the Time Being". The video was created through the CFAT Artists in Residence program, “For the Time Being” references both surrealism and Dada. Beginning with a ticking metronome, a replicate of Man Ray’s “Indestructible Object,” the narrator recites one of the André Breton’s automatic poems while bodies move on and off screen as if pendulums
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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 artist.