Item is a poster for film series screened from November to December 1982 at the Dalhousie Art Gallery, Eye Level Gallery, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Bell Auditorium.
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.
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.
Item is a video work created by Edward Slopek in 1978, titled Black Box on Being: Excerpts from Chapter 11 of the Confessions of St. Augustine. Video was screened at Centre for Art Tapes in 1979. Audio is reading of text by St. Augustine’s philosophy and the visual is of nails being pounded.
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.
Item is a video work about the labour struggle of South Shore fishermen and fish plant workers in Nova Scotia. The work is produced by Tom Burger and Bill McKiggan and screened at Centre for Art Tapes. Video was published by Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Item consists of a video recording showing a group of women using video equipment. The women go to the Public Gardens, where an interview with a man takes place.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Item consists of a video recording by Robert Bean entitled "Polyphony: the longest English word that can be typed with the right and using conventional placement". The choir includes: Doug Bamford, Mireille Bourgeouis, Tanya Busse, Peter Dykhuis, Kristina Gullion, Sue Johnson, Brian Lilley, Barbara Lounder, Mario Osende, Ilan Sandler, and soloists: Janice Jackson and James MacSwain.
