Publication
Corpus Loquendi: Body-Centred Video in Halifax 1972-1982
Through a fortuitous combination of people, place and time, Halifax became a prominent centre of experimental video production in the 1970s. Video artist and NSCAD professor Jan Peacock focused on the early development of video as an art form, on its often transgressive behaviour and obsessive preoccupation with body and language, in a selection of works by Acconci, Askevold, Birnbaum, etc.. Peacock's reexamination of this period sheds light on the foundations of video language at a time when mainstream TV became, as she remarks,"baby-sitter, clergyman, narcotic and therapist to entire nations." The exhibition and catalogue were generously funded by the Exhibitions Assistance Program of the Canada Council.
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- Vito Acconci, David Askevold, Dara Birnbaum, Susan Britton, Eric Cameron, Dorit Cypis, Wendy Geller, Dan Graham, Ian Murray, Martha Rosler, Ed Slopek, Douglas Waterman, Martha Wilson
- Jan Peacock
- Video, Performance, Conceptual Art
- 1994
- 0-7703-0684-5
- essay booklet accompanied by 13 artists' one sheets in customized folder
- Bilingual
- Corpus Loquendi: Body-Centred Video in Halifax 1972-1982, 18 March - 8 May 1994
