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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

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

Andy Dowden

Item is an audiocassette of recordings by Andy Dowden that were recorded and mixed the Experimental Sound Studio at Dalhousie University in the Spring of 1983. The recording features, Side A: "Shore Leave", "One for Marian", "Broken Skin", "A Secret and a Lie", and Side B: "(It Could Go) Either Way", "Heijina Fix", and "Gramps". Item is part of the Andy Dowden Audio Tapes 1983-1985 compilation.

Dowden, Andy

Audio By Artists Festival

Item consists of an audio recording from the Audio by Artists Festival that was recorded in April of 1983 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The recording is affiliated with both Eye Level Gallery and the Centre for Art Tapes.

Dennehy, Clancy

Blowing up a storm for lesbian liberation

Item is an audio recording that includes contributions from Jane Morrigan, Joanne, Jennifer, Lynne Wanyeki, Mary Ann Mancini, Darlene, Margot Parker, Erin, Gail, Susan, Thorn Davies, and others who wished to be anonymous. The tape was created by Catherine Hughes and submitted for a Centre for Art Tapes scholarship.

Breaking the cycle

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.

Benjamin, Sobaz

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

Centre for Art Tapes audio compilation : studio production and documentation of talks and performances

Item is a compilation of recordings of various artists. The tape includes a paper insert that lists the artists and their works.

Side 1 includes six works produced in the studio: "Heartfelt Words" by Andy Dowden (July 1984); "Shakuhachi" by David Barteaux (April 1984); "I am Canadian" by Bob Dean and David Craig (September 1983); "Threads & Sutures" by PBX (Steve Slater, Clancy Dennehy, Billy Duggan, Andrew Finch) (September 1983); "I Want Release" by 333 (Rick Shepard, Jay White, and Clancy Dennehy) (February 1984); traditional maritime music by Jacques Lederlin (April 1984).

Side 2 includes excerpts from 12 talks and performances, compiled by Andy Dowden: "Social Criticism that Makes you Laugh" by Sheila Gostick (June 15, 1984); performance by The Palace at 4 A.M. (Ihor Holubizky, Walter Yarwood, George Higton) (March 10, 1984); "Scanner Training Seminar #2" by Ed Slopek (January 18, 1984); talk at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design for the Atlantic Film and Video Festival by Jerry Mander (October 20, 1984); "Mexico City Blues" by Murphy's Law (Richard Gibson, Steve Tittle, Jim Faraday); "Art, Sexuality, and Censorship" by Varda Burstyn (April 4, 1984); performance at the Other Space by Beth Bartley and Marc Clifford (March 4, 1984); presentation by Robin Endres (June 11, 1984); performance at the Other Space by Clancy Dennehy and Dan Lander (March 4, 1984); talk by Jan Peacock at Struts Gallery (February 1984); audio installation by Hu Hohn (June 1984); and poetry at the Other Space by Clifton Joseph (June 8, 1984).

Centre for Art Tapes sampler

Item is an audio cassette compilation of various works, produced by the Centre for Art Tapes. The tape includes an insert with a list of the titles of the works, artists, and details of its recording (including date). Works included are: "Looking for a New Way to Tie Knots" by 333 (Rick Sheppard, Jay White, Clancy Dennehy); "I am a Canadian" by David Craig and Bob Bean; "Isolation" by Andrew Finch; "Hara 1: Aspirations" by Judith Penner; "Sci-Fi Vid-Sending" by Ed Slopek; "Shakuhachi" by David R. Barteaux; "Threads & Sutures" by PBX (Steve Slater, Clancy Dennehy, Billy Duggan, Andrew Finch); "The Artist's Job, Rapping it Up" by Ingrid Koenig; Untitled by Dana Brousseau; "Art, Sexuality, and Censorship" by Varda Burstyn; "Rosemonde" by Andrew Short and Liane Davison; and "I Don't Know what I feel" by Andy Dowden.

Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

  • MS-3-46
  • Collection
  • 1970-2013
Collection contains over 1,300 video and audio tapes created by members or affiliates of the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The collection includes works created between 1975 and 2012.

Centre for Art Tapes

Chant for Joy

Item is a tape with six tracks: Ganesha Sharanam, Satya Ma, Giridhari Gopal Lala, Hara Shiva Shankara, Smite Smite Sundara, and Om Namah Shivaya Gurave. The tape features Divya Prabha (lead voice, guitar, cymbals, tamboura, kartal) and members of the chorus from the I & I Awareness Association of Halifax. Bhupendra Jagatia plays the tabla, and Andy Dowden plays the kartal and was the recording engineer. The tape is "dedicated to the teachings of spiritual master Pundit Ravi Shankar."

Distant Voices

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.

Exclusive memory : Sleeping robot variations

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.

Sherman, Tom, 1947-

Exclusive memory 4-9-19

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.

Sherman, Tom, 1947-

Exclusive memory 5-8-16

Item consists of a video recording that is based on excerpts of a six hour monologue by Sherman with a computer-based video sensing robot, created by the artist for an exhibition.

Sherman, Tom, 1947-

Exclusive memory 7-11-12

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.

Sherman, Tom, 1947-

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