Promotional postcard for “Two Places / Two Performances”.pdf here.
Programme from Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, featuring “Two Places / Two Performances”.pdf here.
Spring Show 2 programme for exhibition commisioned by Arts Council of Great Britain shown in Serpentine Gallery London 25th March- 16th April 1978 pdf here.
Catalogue for ‘Video Art 78’, an international festival of video art, Herbert Art Gallery, …
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‘In Two Minds’ is a two monitor video installation first exhibited in the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1978. This work consisted of myself on one video monitor asking questions of myself on the other monitor. The questions, typically of that time, largely address the nature of the piece itself. At the time of making the piece I had no intention of using it beyond the Serpentine show, the rough and ready state of the black and white tapes attest to this. …
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Continuum (1977) is the earliest existing video tape that I have made. Produced in collaboration with Gabrielle Bown, it is documentation of a two channel video work, intended to be “performed” using two separate video tape players and video monitors. The two tapes, started roughly in synch with each other were expected to drift out of synchronisation, the two prerecorded sequences progressively diverging, rendering the dialogue increasingly incomprehensible.
Chris Meigh Andrews
Early British video art differs from its American counterpart and British experimental film in that it is concerned less with identifying the specific properties of the medium than with analysing the conditions of viewing and the mechanics and shaping of perceptual and social space. …
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‘Ian Breakwell: EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY, Videotape, b&w, mono sound, 1975’, text about the work written by the artist in 2001.pdf here
EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY – Log of extracts.pdf here …
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Flier/poster, ‘Rotatory’, The Video Show, Serpentine Gallery, 1975. pdf here. …
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Still from Memory 1
The first of the two Memory tapes, ‘Memory 1’ builds actions on a series of instructions, then carries out the instructions in a logical progression added to the previous instruction.
Further Known Screenings:
London Video Arts
Chelsea School of Art
Royal College of Art
Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry
Kunst Akademie Dusseldorf …
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2 pages from an Arts Council of Great Britain: brochure, featuring the live installation/ video work ‘The Swing/Alice through Reflection’ 1978 pdf here.
Section from Conversation with my Daughter. Talking about Swing taken from publication Electronic Shadows, The Art of Tina Keane pdf here.
Invitation for ‘Swing’, 1978-1979 Galleria Del Cavallino, Venice taken from publication Electronic Shadows, The Art of Tina Keane pdf here. …
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Performance: Tina Keane, Michael O’Pray profiles Tina Keane’s career so far for Performance Magazine, 1988 pdf here. …
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Notes re collaborative video project “Hands”, 1975 by Lynn MacRitchie, 2019
The piece was commissioned in spring 1975 as part of the Femmes Films festival, Paris, 23-29 April 1975. The video programme was screened on Saturday, 26 April, in the auditorium of FNAC Montparnasse, 136, Rue de Rennes.
The commission was last minute, initiated by David Medalla, who was a friend of Lea Lublin who was involved with the video part of the festival. …
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