Item MS-3-46, 1986-004 - Valentines, Inbetween tape by Jim MacSwain, Airplane

Caroline Murray-Crick was a video artist who was associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax during 1985 and 1986. Her main work, “Survival: Still the Issue” was a part of the “Life Like it: Some Halifax Video”, which was a nationally traveling exhibit on Halifax video artists. This video deals with the struggle for women’s survival, with shelter, health and employment in the Halifax region as the price of survival for women is incredibly high.

Alan Inkpen was a Halifax-based artist in the 1980s who worked within time-based mediums. Video works that he was associated with are a part of the Centre for Art Tapes tape collection.

James (Jim) MacSwain was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia and graduated from Mount Allison University with a BA in English. Since 1973, Jim has lived in the Halifax area and was an arts administrator in an artist-run centre in Halifax. He has taught media art production at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, the Centre for Art Tapes, and the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative. MacSwain’s videos and films were exhibited at a retrospective at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia that was sponsored by the Centre for Art Tapes in 2005.