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Tall Story
Et in Arcadia Ego
‘The Independents’ – Co-presented by The Art gallery of Ontario and Cinematheque Ontario. Programme of events including a talk by Malcolm LeGrice and screening of ‘Et in Arcadia Ego’.pdf here …
Beware
‘The Independents’ – Co-presented by The Art gallery of Ontario and Cinematheque Ontario. Programme of events including a talk by Malcolm LeGrice and screening of ‘Beware’.pdf here …
Like A Fox
‘The Independents’ – Co-presented by The Art gallery of Ontario and Cinematheque Ontario. Programme of events including a talk by Malcolm LeGrice and screening of ‘Like A Fox’.pdf here …
The Assignation
‘Special Effects Video Junkie’ re promo for ‘How Come it Never Rains’, refers to “The Assignation’, Invision, March 1989. pdf here
Programme details from ‘The Worldwide Video Festival, Kijkhuis’, EQ, c.1988. pdf here
‘Motorway’, programme details from ‘Video Brazil’ catalogue, review by Michael Maziere, undated. pdf here
News article, Snow Business 1990. pdf here …
Day
Jamaica Plain
World Premier of – Jamaica Plain, A Work In Progress: Programme for Jamaican Plain for the ICA Theatre Boston as part of Boston Accent Video Series 23rd-25th June 1989.pdf here.
Newspaper article from The Sunday Sun, June 26, 1988 about John Adams two-month trek across America to shoot a movie he hopes will be shown on Channel 4 in July 26, 1988.pdf here. …
Goldfish memoirs
Installation version was entitled ‘Goldfish Memoirs and the Think Tank’
Time and Tide, The Tyne International Exhibition, Newcastle Upon Tyne 18th June – 5th September 1993 pdf here.
Time and Tide, The Tyne International Exhibition of Contemporary Art Catalogue 1993: Section of script from John Adams work Goldfish Memoirs & The Think Tank pdf here.
Introduction written by Tom Van Vliet for programme of the 12th World Wide Video Festival, …
Deviant Beauty
ICH TANK
Psychobabble in a bubble
“In a loose sort of way it focuses on psychoanalytic forms and procedures. Lacanian ideas, schemas, underlie much of what goes on in the tape. His categories of Symbolic, Imaginary, Real translate particularly well into video, whilst his formulas and diagrams often rely on visual analogies. His seminars, ‘The eye and the gaze’, ‘The line and the light’, refer directly to optical phenomena, and his later concerns with topology and knot formation lend themselves to illustration in a visual format. …