Thoughts on Shirley Clarke and the TP Videospace Troupe
Millennium Film Journal, 2004
Artist and author Andrew Gurian provides the reader with a heavily annotated historical account of film and video artist Shirley Clarke’s practice, inter-spliced with first-hand accounts and experiences from workshops and collaborations, offering the reader a detailed account of what Clarke’s living and working environment was like. Gurian notes that Clarke has often been omitted from history, despite her grandiose contributions to film, video and avant-garde experimentation. Clarke’s work was primarily concerned with action, documentation, motion, perception, perspective, play and experimental cross disciplinary and collaborative art making; creating an infantilizing, immersive experience for the participant.
ITEM 2004.165 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Video Ferris Wheel – Shirley Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
Peter Brook
Jean-Paul Léaud
Carl Lee
Richard Leacock
Nicholas Ray
Willard Van Dyke
Peter Bogdonovich
Milos Forman
Agnès Varda
Harry Smith
Paul Morrisey
Michel Auder
Severn Darden
Strom De Hirsch
Lech Kowalski
Alan Watts
Gregory Corso
Allen Ginsberg
Peter Orlovsky
Ornette Coleman
Irving Kahn
Nam June Paik
Shigeko Kubota
The Vasulkas
Shalom Gorewitz
Ira Schneider
Philip Perlman
Wendy Clarke
Bruce Ferguson
Shridhar Bapat
Susan Milano
Elsa Morse
DeeDee Halleck
David Cort
Nancy Cain
Davidson Gigliotti
Parry Teasdake
Roger LArson
Willard Van Dyke
In Paris Parks – Shirley Clarke
Scary Time – Shirley Clarke
Portrait of Jason – Shirley Clarke
The Connection – Shirley Clarke
Paul Ryan
Dance in the Sun – Shirley Clarke
The Etras
Stephen Beck
A Radio Drama for Two T.V Balls – Shirley Clarke
My Father – Shigeko Kubota
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Joe Chaikin
Sam Shepard
Tongues and Savage/Love – Shirley Clarke
The kitchen – The TP Videospace Troupe
Video Toys – The TP Videospace Troupe