Item is a contact sheet with thirty photographs from The Glass Bead Game installation by Timothy Watters. The installation was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes as part of the Audio by Artists festival.
Item is a photograph of Getting a Handle On It, an installation by Garry Conway. The installation was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes some time in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
Item is a photograph of Getting a Handle On It, an installation by Garry Conway. The installation was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes some time in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
Item is a photograph of Getting a Handle On It, an installation by Garry Conway. The installation was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes some time in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
Item is a contact sheet with thirty-two photographs of an unidentified performance. Several photographs show two artists performing on a stage with a projection of Ronald Reagan's face and the text "What Went Wrong? An Appraisal of Reagan's Foreign Policy."
Item is a photograph of Cathy Quinn performing at the1985 Arts and Culture Assembly at the Dalhousie Arts Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The photograph shows Quinn on stage holding an audio cassette player up to a microphone.
Item is a photograph of Cathy Quinn performing at the1985 Arts and Culture Assembly at the Dalhousie Arts Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The photograph shows Quinn on stage holding an audio cassette player up to a microphone.
Item is a contact sheet with eighteen b&w photographs from the 1985 Arts and Culture Assembly at the Dalhousie Arts Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sixteen of the photographs show Cathy Quinn's performance during the event and two photographs photographer Mark Simkins (1954 - 19 November 2022) with a camera.
Item is a photographic still from video Selling Out. Image shows Public Service Alliance of Canada clerical staff picketing at the Halifax Post office.
Item is a photographic still of video Debert Bunker by Liz MacDougall. Image is of 10 people with a sign with the text Debert Bunker by invitation only.
Item is a photographic still of the video Pie Y Café by Jan Peacock. Image is of a close up of hands, one of which is wrapped in fabric and the other holding a spoon. Video was part of Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America.
Item is an audio recording of 'In a Drunken Stupor,' a performance by Clive Robertson presented on February 29, 1984 at the Treasure Cove Lounge in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia as part of the 1984 Audio by Artists Festival. This solo performance about domestic violence and war premiered in 1983 for Syntax, Calgary and widely performed across the artist-run centre network between 1983 and 1985. The performance has a backing track of read texts, sound effects, and music ending with the song, "What Can A Man Say?." The texts are read by Janet Martin, Lisa Steele, Lisa Wyndels, Carole Conde, Joyce Mason and Lillian Allen.
Item consists of a video recording by Sobaz Benajmin entitled "Breaking the Cycle". North Preston boasts some of the most gifted singers in Atlantic Canada, if not in Canada. Yet few have been able to capture the international limelight. In this short documentary, it showcases some of the performers from North Preston, the oldest indigenous black community in Canada, who are working to break this cycle. This project was an outreach project organized by Moving Images Group in collaboration with CFAT. The aim was to bring video production to a community. The project was written, shot and directed collectively.
Item consists of a video recording entitled "Splash Water Sports: Underwater Pumpkin Carving Contest" which was filed on October 28th, 2001 at Fox Point Beach in Nova Scotia.
Item consists of a video recording entitled "Distant Voices" by Barbara Badessi. In "Distant Voices", Badessi she links her contemporary experiences as an immigrant with the historic influx of immigrants arriving at Pier 21 in Halifax between 1928 and 1971. Badessi herself emigrated to Canada from her native Italy in 1985.
Item consists of a video, produced by Ron Gerold, that documents an innovative, multi-layered dramatic presentation on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. This inspiring play was produced for the Cultural Awareness Youth group which is dedicated to teaching black youths their own history.
Item consists of a video by Douglas Waterman. An insert in the U-matic tape box describes the video as follows:
"A static electrical charge is generated by shuffling my clothed feet over an insulator, and by postponing contact with elements having characteristics which would operate as outlets for the charges being generated. The stored charge emits an electrical fields that draws the particles (ashes) toward it. A proportion of the charge from my hand jumps to the particles as the particles rise to and contact my hand. The particles have received an overcharge which opposes it to its source, so is driven back to its resting place. Dispersal time for the particles' energy is (approx. 10 sec.) allowing it to be activated again, initiating another cycle as the particles slowly spread out."
Item consists of a video by Tom Sherman. Originally conceived of as an installation, “Exclusive Memory” is based on excerpts of a 6 hour monologue by Sherman to a machine, a computer-based video sensing robot, created by the artist.
Item consists of a silent video by Tom Sherman. Originally conceived of as an installation, “Exclusive Memory” is based on excerpts of a 6 hour monologue by Sherman to a machine, a computer-based video sensing robot, created by the artist.
