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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

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

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

Multiplexing

Item consists of an audio recording by Tom Sherman which was recorded for "Community Reception" at the Centre for Art Tapes on October 31 and November 10, 1979.

Sherman, Tom, 1947-

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

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

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.

Prime the Video Game Commercials on Hold

Item is an audiocassette by Andy Dowden. The recording features Side A: "What Floyd said to Me. Plinkin", "Mr. Arcade is Here", Side B: "The Love Song", "Lexicon Overkill", and "Bomb Dangerous". Item is part of the Andy Dowden Audio Tapes 1983-1985 compilation.

Dowden, Andy

New art resources

Item contains "New art Resources" for the Eye Level Gallery, including interviews with Bernice Purdy and Eric Walker on ASN (ATV) (July 30, 1984); Satire as Discontent by Dan Lander August 29, 1984); and Such Wonderful Times, a performance documentation with video by Bob Tonks and sound by David Barteaux.

Lander, Dan

In a Drunken Stupor

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.

Robertson, Clive, 1946-

What I Feel

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.

Dowden, Andy

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).

Peace

Item is an audio cassette that contains seven tracks by Andy Dowden: Political Freedom, Self-Hypnosis, He Man, Fun 1, 2 Big Men, Cheer Up, and De Lub Dub. Special thanks are given to David Barteaux and Andy James. The tape also features Clancy Dennehy on the "De Lub Dub" track on drums and was produced at the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Cover art for the tape is by Jan Skeldon.

Dowden, Andy

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