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Brian MacNevin compilation

Item contains six videos by Brian MacNevin: Louie (1970); 2D Images (1971); Peggy's Cove Revisited (1974); Self Portraits (1975); The Human Condition; and Mount Rundle. The Human Condition was videoed in St. John's, Newfoundland and Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Mount Rundle was taken in Banff, Alberta.

MacNevin, Brian

Early works

Item contains three videos by Brian MacNevin: Louie (1970); 2D Images (1971); and Peggy's Cove Revisited (1974), as well as photos and other materials used in these works.

MacNevin, Brian

101 television celebrities

Item contains a collection of 30 second video portraitures, started in the spring of 1972 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as an attempt to put as many people as possible on television. Each portrait starts with the individual's name, and then they say or do whatever they want for 30 seconds.

MacNevin, Brian

Brian MacNevin compilation

Item contains nine videos by Brian MacNevin, including Elvis, Louie, 20 Images, Great Moments in Television No. 86, No. 4 Canadian Television Celebrity of 1972, No. 1 Canadian Television Celebrity of 1972, Nine Portraits, and Freezing Snow. The name of one of the videos is illegible.

MacNevin, Brian

101 television celebrities

Item contains a collection of 30 second video portraitures, started in the spring of 1972 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as an attempt to put as many people as possible on television. Each portrait starts with the individual's name, and then they say or do whatever they want for 30 seconds.

MacNevin, Brian

Past future split attention, Performer audience sequence

Item is a Betacam SP videocassette that contains two video works created by Dan Graham in 1976 : Past future split attention (17 min., 25 sec.) and Performer / audience / sequence (45 min. 11 sec.). The first work was performed in London's Lisson Gallery in March 1972. The performance is a project of restructuring space and time, where two people are in the same space, and while one predicts the other person's behaviour, the other recalls the other person's past behaviour. The second work was performed at Artist's Space, New York in January 1976. In this performance, Graham stands in front of a mirror, facing the audience, and tells the audience his movements and their meanings. Videocassette was dubbed from a U-matic sub-master to Betacam SP by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Centre for Art Tapes screened the work in 1979.

Graham, Dan, 1942-

Past future split attention, Performer audience sequence

Item is a U-matic videocassette that contains two video works created by Dan Graham in 1976 : Past future split attention (17 min., 25 sec.) and Performer / audience / sequence (45 min. 11 sec.). The first work was performed in London's Lisson Gallery in March 1972. The performance is a project of restructuring space and time, where two people are in the same space, and while one predicts the other person's behaviour, the other recalls the other person's past behaviour. The second work was performed at Artist's Space, New York in January 1976. In this performance, Graham stands in front of a mirror, facing the audience, and tells the audience his movements and their meanings. Videocassette was dubbed to Betacam SP by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Videocassettes are accompanied by four pages explaining the video works. Centre for Art Tapes screened the work in 1979.

Graham, Dan, 1942-

Private residence

Item consists of a video recording by Wendy Geller entitled "Private Residence". The video has been described as being: "Geller’s accomplishment as a master videographer is exemplififed in this video work in 1974. It was not released for distribution until 2002. We can look back at the low tech of the 1970s and be startled to see that “Private Residence” withstands the tech revolution and stands as a stark, simple, and timeless art work."

Geller, Wendy

On Air

Item consists of four video works in the series On air, created by Susan Britton : Love Hurts (10 min., 1977); ...and a woman (6 min., 1978); Don’t get cute (8 min., 1978); Tango (7 min., 1976). Centre for Art Tapes exhibition of her photographs and videos in 1978.

Britton, Susan

Le Magra

Item is a documentary work created by Pierre Falardeau and Julian Poulin about the police academy in Nicolet. The Centre for Art Tapes screened the work with Pea Soup in 1980.

Falardeau, Pierre

Operating room scrub

Item is a Betacam SP videocassette created by Theodore Wan as part of installation at the Victoria General Hospital called Sculpture: Calling attention to a space. It was edited from Operating room scrub by Dalhousie University surgery department.

Wan, Theodore, 1953-1987

Televizion tapes

Item consists of four video works : Night time photographs by Katherine Knight as well as a series titled Televizion Tapes by John Currie. Series consists of : Sylivia (17 min.), Blow Job (Rubber Dickey) A Soap Opera (4 min.) and Texas John (16 min.). Photographs and videos where exhibited by Centre for Art Tapes in 1980.

Knight, Katherine

Room for a co-op

Item is a video work produced by Barry Burley and Fred Ward. Rex Tasker was the executive producer. The video was edited by Barry Burley in 1977. The work is about the Prince Edward Island Marine Plants Cooperative and was screened by the Centre for Art Tapes during a 1978 exhibition of Robert Bean photographs.

Burley, Barry

Operating room scrub

Item is a video work of a filmed performance by Theodore Wan called Operating room scrub, an installation by Victoria General Hospital called Sculpture: Calling attention to a space. It was edited from Operating room scrub by Dalhousie University surgery department. Case also contains postcard for installation as well as a note about the installation.

Wan, Theodore, 1953-1987

The black and white tapes

Item consists of three video works created by John Orentlicher and Tom Sherman created between 1978 and 1979. The video works are a series titled The black and white tapes and include : 2 + 1 +1, Because it's my image - Watching the leatherman, and She and she. Videos were screened by Centre for Art Tapes in 1980. The Centre for Art Tapes described the videos as the following: 2 + 1 + 1: a nude woman lies on a bed, stroking a dog that lies beside her. Voiceover is a description of sexual imagery repeated several times, first by a man, then a woman, then together. Because it's My Image - Watching the Leatherman: a black man gets dressed up in his leather gear, S &M Style. We hear him describing his garments, but the main audio is a voice that talks about television, voyeurism. She and She: a woman strips, gets into some kind of odd metal breastplate and codpiece, she skips the metal pieces. During this segment, a female voice talks about sharing space, the audience trusting the character and vice versa.

Orentlicher, John

Unknown, untitled #1

Item is a video created by Amy Pfeiffer, Unknown, untitled #1 made in 1978. The content is described as: Man goes into china shop, steals - intercut: video tape of television screen, apples in hand, hands next to loaded dinner plate at dining table.

Pfeiffer, Amy

Explaining art

Item is a set of two videos that documents a multi-media performance. In the performance, Clive Robertson dresses as Joseph Beuys while reading the news.

Robertson, Clive, 1946-

Pea soup #2

Item is a video work created by Pierre Falardeau and Julian Poulin in 1978. The Centre for Art Tapes screened the work with La Magra in 1980.

Falardeau, Pierre

Explaining pictures to dead air

Item is a video recording of the tele-performance Explaining Pictures to Dead Air by Clive Robertson. The performance was a live cablecast specifically created for the Fifth Network/Cinquiéme Réseau conference held in Toronto, Ontario from September 7-10, 1978. The title is a reference to a performance piece How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare presented by the German artist Joseph Beuys on November 26, 1965 at the Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf. Robertson's performance was written specifically for the Fifth Network conference and asked the question: Would network news be any different if it was read by Joseph Beuys? The performance ends with a pre-recorded conversation between Robertson and Beuys on the topic of artists using television.

Robertson, Clive, 1946-

Coke adds life?

Item is a video created by Dean Johnstone as part of a Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Project. Lighting by David Wigmore and Effects: B. McCarvell
Performers include: Buell, Cole, Cousins, Genge, Johnstone, McCarvell, McInnis, Mclean, Parslow, Picard, Pidgeon, Semple, Steward, Wigmore.

Johnstone, Dean

Prose readings

Item consists of two video works created by Mike Riggio (director), John Doyle (camera), and Paul Wadden (writer and performer). Video includes two selections of prose readings : Far greater love on a far greater bay and One of the boys. Video is from Memorial University Art Tapes. Far Great Love is a video of man drinking with English accent reminiscing of a great love. One of the Boys is about a man with heavy Newfoundland accent telling story.

Wadden, Paul

Lunar Re-Appraisal

Item consists of a video recording by Clive Robertson entitled "Lunar Re-Appraisal". The work describes the fictional story of a woman astro-scientist who was meant to travel to the moon in 1969 using factual information about the NASA manned space program.

Robertson, Clive, 1946-

Guysborough county

Item is a video created by Barry Burley in 1979. The video looks at the problems of the people of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. Video was screened at Centre for Art Tapes in 1979.

Burley, Barry

Multiplexing

Item consists of an audio recording by Tom Sherman which was recorded for "Community Reception" at the Centre for Art Tapes on October 31 and November 10, 1979.

Sherman, Tom, 1947-

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