Critical Writing Index

Manhattan Shortcuts: Video and Ritual

by Ann-Sargent Wooster

Afterimage, Feb. Spring 1985, v. 12, no. 7, p. 19

This article contains reviews for two shows. Video and Ritual is a overview of video art practices from the '60s and '70s and contains great insight into the works of Joan Jonas. The critic found that Video and Ritual was fragmented; "rather than creating a tribal, global village, artists' television has fostered according to these tapes individuality and privitsm." - Ann Sargent Wooster

ITEM 1985.049 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Organic Honey's Visual TelepathyJoan Jonas

Ritual of Triadic RelationsPaul Ryan

Warlock(ing)Paul Kos

Yanomami HealingJuan Downey

Sounds of the LotusUlricke Rosenbach

Memories of Ancestral power-the moro movement in Solomon islandsBill Viola

ThresholdsHarriet Casom-Silver

Planet of the eyeRit Myers

Spine/timeRit Myers