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Halifax-Lublin exchange videotapes : Popular Projects, Girls just want to have fun, Sirensong, Fascynacja, Nothing personal, Obey your heart
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- Moving images
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Popular Projects, Cathy Busby, Melodie Calvert, Jan Peacock, Doug Porter, Dean Brousseau
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MS-3-46, 1988-015
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1988 (Creation)
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1 videocassette : col., VHS
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Dean Brousseau is a Halifax-based cinematographer and photographer. Brousseau has an education from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Brousseau has worked as an instructor at the Centre for Arts and Technology in Halifax, teaching courses in cinematography, and as a Director of Photography in the film industry.
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(1955-)
Biographical history
Jan Peacock is an internationally known Canadian mixed media artist, born in Barrie, Ontario in 1955. Peacock received a BFA from the University of Western Ontario (1978) and a MFA from the University of California, San Diego (1981). Peacock has been a prominent Halifax artist since the 1980’s, and much of her media and video art has been associated with the Centre for Art Tapes (MS-3-46). Peacock currently is a Professor in the Department of Media Arts and Director of the MFA program at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Peacock received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2012.
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(1961-)
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Melodie Calvert (1961- ) is a Canadian art and producer, born in Innisfield, Alberta, who is known for her media artistic practices. Calvert was involved in the Halifax art community in the 1980’s as Calvert’s video recordings of are a part of the Centre for Art Tapes (MS-3-46).
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(1958-)
Biographical history
Cathy Busby is a Canadian artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her education includes a PhD in Communication Studies from Concordia University, a MA in Media Studies and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
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Doug Porter is a Halifax based artist and has been working with media and video mediums since the 1980s. Porter has exhibited artworks internationally. Porter is an instructor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax.
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Popular Projects is a non-profit society dedicated to using theatre and performance for social change. Popular Projects is commonly associated with Commercial Culture. Structured as advertisements, Commercial Culture uses satire to expose the dire effects of increased state intervention on the arts. Commercial Culture was produced for a National Forum on Canadian Culture.
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 video recordings by Halifax-Lublin Exchange Videotapes: Popular Projects, Girls Just Want to Have Funds by Cathy Busby and Melodie Calvert, Sirensong by Jan Peacock, Fascynacja by Doug Porter, Nothing Personal by Melodie Calvert and Obey Your Heart by Dean Brousseau.
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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.