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Centre for Art Tapes tape collection
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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

TVideo and East on the 401

Items consists of two video works created by Tom Sherman : "TVideo" (1980) and "East on the 401", which was formerly titled "You can't watch television and drive a care at the same time" (1978). "TVideo" is a video performance where Tom Sherman discusses a fictional end to his career. The work was created in 1980 and was produced in Toronto, set in Montreal, and shot in Syracuse, New York. The work was originally created for broadcast on "Television by Artists", produced by John Watt and the Fine Arts Broadcast Service. "East on the 401" depicts driving on a highway from the driver's perspective, creating a trance-like quality.

Sherman, Tom, 1947-

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

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

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

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

Virginia Shaw interviews

Item is a videocassette created by Virginia Shaw in 1980. Tape includes footage of Shaw interviewing people in Auckland, New Zealand about Māori land, Bastion Point, and the 1975 Māori land march. Tape also includes footage of an interview with loggers at a camp near Kawerau, Paremoremo Prison, and an unidentified hair salon.

Coming out strong

Item is a video work created by Dawna Proudman, Rozanne LePine, Tradewinds Film Co-op (Ottawa) in 1982. The Centre for Art Tapes screened the work as part of International Women's Week programming in 1982. The video documents the production of a play which is a socially conscious study of black immigrant women working in domestic situations. The director and producer teach these non-actors how to emote, react, etc. There are also brief clips of the actual play.

Proudman, Dawna

Jeremy Welsh video compilation

Item consists of seven video works by Jeremy Welsh : B (12 min.); Still dancing (5 min., 30 sec.); Insomnia (14 min., 30 sec.); The drummer (5 min.); These days everyobody is a conceptualist (9 min., 30 sec.); that elusive quality of romance (part two) extract from 30 min. ambient video installation; In re Don Giovanni (with Michael Nyman).

David Short Library #4

Item is a video of shots collected by David Short. In the case two pages list the name of the shot list and dates on CTV News stationary. Shots include : Ladies choice, Burger King commercial, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation logo and more shots.

MTL #7

Item is a video of shots collected by David Short. In the case one page list the name of the shot list and dates on CFCF-TV12 editor's shot list. Shots include : defense spending, GMA Nicaragua, heavy fighting and more shots.

MTL #16

Item is a video of shots collected by David Short. In the case 2 pages list the name of the shot list and dates on CFCF-TV12 film editor's shot list. Shots include,experimental kitchen, sexism story- France, El Salvador American aid and more shots.

The thirty second effect

Item is a video work created by Carolyn Lounder, Micah Lexier, David MacDonald, and Liz MacDougall in 1983. According to a conversation with Liz MacDougall on February 11th, 2007, this tape was a Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) Summer Project.

Lexier, Micah, 1960-

Video workshop

Item is a video work created by Alan Fox in 1984 at the Centre for Art Tapes. It is Part 2 of a video workshop showing many aspects of the studio.

Survival : Still the issue

Items consist of a video recording by Melodie Calvert, Caroline Murray-Crick and Nancy David. This video work was a part of the 1986 video exhibition, "Life Like It", which featured Halifax-based video artists and traveled nationally. "Survival: Still the Issue" deals with the subject of women's survival in the Halifax region because of the high price and scarcity of shelter, health and employment.

Calvert, Melodie, 1961-

The music of Andy James

Item consists of audio recordings by Andy James, which were played at the 1986 Audio by Artist Festival and produced by Andy Dowden. The festival was dedicated to Andy James, who passed away in January 1986 and contributed to the festival in the past. Material was aired on CKDU.

Dowden, Andy

Electronic residency

Item consists of a video recording by Wis Johnston, Lucas Steinman, Nick Dywelska and Chantel Tardiff entitled "Electronic Residency". The video features electronic residency prototype demonstrations and creative sound projects.

Documentaries produced at the Centre

Item consists of a video recording of various documentaries produced at the Centre for Art Tapes. The recording features: "M.D.M" (36 min., 47 sec.), "Architecture in Motion" (20 min., 8 sec.), "Drug Warriors Research Footage" (6 min., 45 sec.), "My Mother’s House" (21 min., 52 sec.), and "Miss Canadiana comes to Halifax" (16 min., 27 sec.).

Koehler, Marie

Snare

Item consists of a video recording entitled "Snare" which features people drumming on a loop video.

McKeough, Rita

Frame-X

Item consists of the video recordings: :Construct + Conflict" by Jeff Wheaton, "For the Love of my Life" by S. T. Elliot and Guang Zhu Duh, "South Halifax North" by Bradenn Cannon, "Cliffe Street" by Chris Gills, "Try Opening the Box"and "Incomprehensible Contents, Listen" by Shi-Eun Kim.

Six

Item consists of a video recording by Wendy Geller entitled "Six". The video consists of a recreation of dramatic shots and actions from six classic and “B” movies, recreated, acte, and produced in a 2 foot by 3 foot closet by the artist.

Geller, Wendy

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