Single Channel Works Videography
PURSED 2003-2004; 4:55
2003 video/installation or single-channel tape by Nancy Buchanan & Cynthia Maughan
Taste and the Sublime; we not-so-gingerly approach the last taboos in art: money and class. Masked as a comedic rant, the tape asks whether compulsive shopping cripples an individual's imagination. A discourse on the evils of marketing and the marketing of evil. What's your bag?
ABBREVIATED HISTORY: THE U.S. FLAG AND THE LAW 2002;
While I understand that displaying the flag can express a genuine sentiment, flag-waving without thought can also be a sign of jingoism. I researched the history of laws concerning the display and use of the flag, finding that, since 1989, proposed constitutional amendments banning flag "desecration" have almost continually been brought up in Congress.
FRAGMENT 1990; 3'35"
Scholar Kitty Millett provides on-the-spot analysis of the mystique of Disneyland simulation, while, since we anticipate the scene itself, imagery is heavily image-processed.
MOUTH(PIECE) 1989; 10'15"; Original music by Angelo Funicelli
Continues the theme begun in Sightlines , wherein naming the cause of suffering is attempted. The impact of institutionalized brutality on one's personal life is explored in a final performance segment.
SIGHTLINES 1988; 8'08" Original music by Angelo Funicelli
This tape explores the way we "see" one another, particularly with regard to how political propaganda creates an image of the "Other." One woman's true story of murder and danger in her native El Salvador frames a segment of manipulated imagery illustrating clichés about eyes, sight, vision, which is followed by a concluding section addressing how it becomes increasingly difficult not to see homelessness.
THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION 1985-86; 7'34"; Original music by Angelo Funicelli
A personal homage to Walter Benjamin, considering issues raised by The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, and the manner in which problems are compounded by television. Image- processing creates a handmade look, underscoring the lack of collective video art, and quotations about the social responsibility of the artist are manipulated to force a tension between the act of viewing and reading.
TECH-KNOWLEDGE 1984; 16'
Examples of Midwestern industry and farming are used to survey the ways in which technology mediates our
lives. Audio interviews explore equipment usage, while visual representations are subjected to image-
processing to echo the theme itself. Electronic sound created by Peter Chamberlain.
CALIFORNIA STORIES 1983; 10'
Natives of Wisconsin reveal the "truth" about California. Most interviewees have never been West. A Video Letter exchange with artist Stuart Bender, who created Myths of the Midwest.
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SPECTRES 1979; 4'49"
A deconstruction of the power of tv "reality" through breaking it into its elements of sound and image. While a young man narrates a "formula" tv movie (the chase scene, the romance, etc.), scenes set up entirely in either orange, yellow, green, blue, purple or red call attention to the unnatural quality of electronic color.
WITH LOVE FROM A TO B 1977; 10'; collaboration with Barbara T. Smith
Originally created as a performance for video via closed-circuit TV at the College Art Association, this is a small-scale
tale of unrequited love.
PLEASE SING ALONG (1974) Beautiful naked men dance at the Woman's Building, while the artist and Barbara T. Smith engage in a real, physical fight.
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