Infermental 7 (1988)
Buffalo, USA, 1988
58 contributions, 17 countries, 5 hours
Editors: Chris Hill / Tony Conrad / Peter Weibel
Supervisor: Rotraut Pape
As an internationally solicited project, Infermental affords its editors the opportunity to review at one time an unusually broad range of work. As a juror encountering such a field, I found myself caught up with issues concerning the tapes’ various modes of address. I was curious as to whether we would find a broad menu of video “dialects” or rather be impressed by some predictable and legible gestures, suggesting perhaps a widespread engagement with a particular art discourse or a desire for visibility to a specific audience. Perhaps modes of address is presently an American cultural preoccupation, with the clamor of many markets aggressively demanding our attentions within our commodity-driven lives. But more and more it seems that video artists do have the gamble the inspiration, production and reception of their work in a field that demands their weighing of the resources (tools and audiences) offered by a confidently established television industry against a less centralized art and / or alternative cultural or infoemotional scene.
(Chris Hill)
Content
Public Images
De-Colonized Media
Sexuality or Gender
Epidemics
Image Dialects
Public Images | ||||
Artist | Title | Country | Year | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Anding, Volker | Kelvin | D | 1987 | 04:53 |
Buescher, Michaela | Flirting TV | D | 1987 | 05:19 |
Callas, Peter | Kinema no yoru (excerpt) | AUS | 1986 | 02:38 |
Coerper, Paul | Die FFF Show (excerpt) | D | 1986 | 04:52 |
Conrad, Tony | Ipso Facto | USA | 1986 | 04:47 |
Danielson, Rob | Opposite Effects | USA | 1987 | 04:44 |
Foreman, Richard / | Top of the Pop | USA | 1987 | 03:36 |
Hornbacher, Sara | Anti-scenes in Panama | USA | 1986 | 03:24 |
Levonen, Juha | Cocktails | SF | 1986 | 04:04 |
Pürrer, Ursula / | Im Original farbig | A | 1986 | 04:50 |
Taczanowski, Hubert / | Kult | PL | 1986 | 02:33 |
Vrana, Petr | Medienpornesie | D | 1987 | 05:06 |
Weibel, Peter / | Logo Culture | USA | 1986 | 05:06 |
Wiedemann, Carl | Illiteracy (excerpt) | USA | 1986 | 01:10 |
De-Colonized Media | ||||
Artist | Title | Country | Year | Duration |
Downey, Juan | La Madrepatria | USA | 1987 | 07:30 |
Geller, Mitch | P-372-87-ADC-24637 | USA | 1987 | 05:19 |
Grupo Chaski | Miss Universe in Peru (excerpt) | PE | 1985 | 04:19 |
Jochananov, Boris | Africa as Gargarin (excerpt) | SU | 1987 | 02:54 |
Leiberg, Helge | Ferne Gegenden (excerpt) | DDR | 1984 | 02:35 |
Olhar Eletronico | Varela in Xingu (excerpt) | BRA | 1985 | 05:10 |
Rabotnik TV | Selections from Programming (excerpt) | NL | 1987 | 02:24 |
Ranucci, Karen | Cross Section One Afternoon | USA | 1985 | 03:23 |
Teatr & Teatr | Nightmare in a Moscow Apartment | SU | 1987 | 03:22 |
Truly, Ruby | … and the Word Was God (excerpt) | CDN | 1987 | 04:50 |
Usha, Shawn / Sherl, Illana | Brasil – External Debt | USA | 1987 | 07:02 |
Zando, Julie | Hey Bud (excerpt) | USA | 1987 | 08:53 |
Sexuality or Gender | ||||
Artist | Title | Country | Year | Duration |
Ahwesh, Margaret | I Ride a Pony Named Flame | USA | 1987 | 04:40 |
Day, Dennis | Oh, Nothing | CDN | 1987 | 11:06 |
Hein, Wilhelm / | Kali-Film (excerpt) | D | 1987 | 04:47 |
Heurich, Armin | Last Rites | USA | 1987 | 02:20 |
Idemitsu, Mako | Yoji, What’s Wrong with You? (excerpt) | J | 1987 | 10:01 |
Levine, Paula | Mirror, Mirror | USA | 1987 | 02:47 |
Lopez, Susannah / | Making the Breaks (excerpt) | GB | 1987 | 05:14 |
Minahan, Daniel | Aesthetics and/or Transportation (excerpt) | USA | 1987 | 04:49 |
Nandori, Jozsef | Magömlés | H | 1987 | 02:54 |
Sharits, Paul | Rapture (excerpt) | USA | 1986 | 05:87 |
Wilson, Emjay | Values in a Near Perfect World (excerpt) | USA | 1987 | 02:06 |
Epidemics | ||||
Artist | Title | Country | Year | Duration |
Downtown Community | Hard Metal’s Disease Follow-up (excerpt) | USA | 1987 | 11:11 |
Frez, Ilja | Kalininprospekt Videowall (excerpt) | SU | 1987 | 01:51 |
Gehrisch, Rainer | 8.9./9.9.87 Trave / Lübecker Hafen, | D | 1987 | 02:21 |
Hershman, Lynn | Jim Jones (excerpt) | USA | 1987 | 04:31 |
Hill, Gary | Mediations | USA | 1979-86 | 04:19 |
Klepsch, Axel | Augen zu | D | 1986 | 08:25 |
Meyer, Alex | I Love New York / Irradiated Produce | USA | 1987 | 01:22 |
Neuwirth, Manfred | Experten | A | 1986 | 01:40 |
Oursler, Tony | Sucker (excerpt) | USA | 1986 | 05:09 |
Testing the Limits Collective | Testing the Limits | USA | 1987 | 06:31 |
Wilcox, Mark | Celebrities | GB | 1985 | 12:36 |
Image Dialects | ||||
Artist | Title | Country | Year | Duration |
City Group | Valvegrind | NZ | 1985-86 | 03:57 |
Frigo | Les Cochons Roses (excerpt) | F | 1987 | 05:38 |
Gramming, Walter | Groszgen | D | 1987 | 12:16 |
Gusella, Ernest | The Red Star (excerpt) | USA | 1986 | 03:10 |
Hahnemann, Karl-Heinz | Kaspar Hauser Stirb (excerpt) | DDR | 1987 | 05:01 |
Lister, Ardele | Zoe’s Car | USA | 1987 | 06:38 |
Smith, David / | Continuous Entertainment (excerpt) | USA | 1986 | 04:35 |
Vasulka, Steina | Lilith (excerpt) | USA | 1987 | 05:03 |
Vasulka, Woody | The Art of Memory (excerpt) | USA | 1987 | 06:09 |
Würzer, Hermann | Flim | A | 1985 | 05:27 |