Item consists of a clip entitled "Columbia lift off" and twenty other segments, including ones on El Salvador, commercials, Regan, and the State of the Union. The segments are listed on a piece of paper inside the videocassette case. The page is titled "#8 MTL".
Item is a recording of Gordon Monahan's piece "Tidal Music: 45N 64W" using sounds recorded at the beach at South Bauline, Newfoundland. The cassette label includes a note that the piece is different from "The Tidal Bore of the Maccan River."
Item is a video work created by Dean Brousseau in 1984. Video was produced through the Centre for Art Tapes. Videos part of Halifax Independent Producers series (2 of 5). Dinner is an experimental documentary using a universal family event as its focus. Framed in snap-shot style, the video seems to arbitrarily “crop off” the participants, saving anonymity. This tape allows the viewer to concentrate on details of inpromptu etiquette and casual conversation around the dinner table, until, in the end, as with any family event, the camera is brought out to take pictures. On the cue “okay, smile!” the photographs taken are tossed one by one into the video frame, revealing at last the dinner participants in fuzzy Polaroids.
Item is a video of performance recorded by Centre for Art Tapes of Clifton Joseph member of the group Dub Poets, backed by members of Halifax thriving reggae and rasta community.
Item is an audio recording by Andy Dowden. The tape features "What I Feel", "A Deep Devotion or Affection For Another Person or Persons: Love For Ones Childre", "Sexual Passion in General of the Gratification of it", "One whp is beloved", "A very great Interest in, or Enjoyment of, Something; also, the Thing so Enjoyed", and "Heartfelt Words".
Item is an audio recording which features "The Woeurks", "Okarina", "Meme la technologie fragmente", "News", "Glass Lass", "Sphere Sonore", "Kipchogue Keino", "Bestiare Urbaine et Autres Civilities Bizarres", and "Temps reel".
Item consists of CFAT staff and artist radio interviews from early 1984. Side A features an interview with C. Quinn and D. Barteaux on the Audio by Artists Festival 1984, R. Adams (Popular Projects) on artists and taxation, G. Conway, A Dowden, et al. on art and technology, Mick Hartney on the SAW International Festival of Video, Clifton Joseph on Performance as Resistance, and Steila Gostick discussing P. as R..
Item consists of audio recordings of an interview with Lillian Allen (Information Morning, CBC-AM) and an interview with Clifton Joseph & Devon Haughton (Andrew Gilhi, Q-104FM).
Item consists of audio recordings which feature Side A, Judith Penner, "Home Cure" (Steve Garrett and Wynn Jordan) and Side B, Rick Shepard and Greg Brothers.
Item contains the first part of a panel discussion with Bruce Elder, Clive Robertson, and Ron Shuebrook, moderated by Diana Asimakos and Barb Sternberg.
Item consists of two video works : Relative activities by Paula Fairfield ; Doing nothing with somebody by Micah Lexier in 1984. Videos were produced through the Centre for Art Tapes. Videos part of Halifax Independent Producers series (1 of 5).
Item consists of three video works that were part of the Ottawa International Festival of Video Art (SAW festival). According to a conversation with Liz MacDougall on February 11th, 2007 the was part of a tour and workshop.
Item is a video work of performance recorded by Centre for Art Tapes of Clifton Joseph, member of the group Dub Poets, backed by members of Halifax thriving reggae and rasta community.
Item is a video work created by Dan Lander in 1983. Video was produced in Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Case includes a one page description of the video by the artist. He described the video as : student work is a quick and somewhat humorous piece dealing with the idea of being a photographer, while trying to lose some of the habits of that profession. A thrumming drone makes up the audio portion of the tape, reminding one of the sound and feeling of a drive over a long stretch of highway.
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 an audio recording by Andy Dowden, which features Side 1: "What I feel", "Heartfelt Words" and Side 2: "Fine Line", "It’s Only Love". The audio was recorded at the Centre for Art Tapes and the liner notes features a handwritten thank you from Dowden.
Item consists of a video compilation portfolio by Mark Berabioff with four individual works, including "Crossing the 49th." Crossing the 49th is a narrative fantasy dealing with the notion that the total population of Canada could be swapped with the entire American gay population. The tape uses several methods to address this fantasy: blue American and red Canadian lips share ideas; keyed text in the guise of airport codes and clauses float across the screen; sections of slow-moving, bleached-out shots help create a dreamy effect that runs the entire length of the tape.
Item consists of two individual videos, "Canadian Historical Vignettes: The Visiting Forces Act (1947)" by Gary Kibbins and "The Indifferent City" by Doug Pope. Kibbins video is an anti-Canada/United States video with a voice-over of a re-enactment of the parliamentary debate concerning the Visiting Forces Act. This bill was seen as partial immunity for American military personnel in Canada as it allowed the American military court to try any crimes that occurred on Canadian soil. "The Indifferent City" is an unfinished work.
Item contains the first part of a panel discussion with Bruce Elder, Clive Robertson, and Ron Shuebrook, moderated by Diana Asimakos and Barb Sternberg.
