The Aesthetics of the Subject: James Byrne's Video Projects
Afterimage, Apr. 1983, v. 10, no. 9, pp. 7-11
This article is about the life and work of video artist James Byrne.
Author Marita Sturken charts the trajectory of artist James Byrne's body of work. Byrne has worked with video since 1972, and his work has made the natural progression of the untrained artist learning a medium as they go.
Byrne developed a distinctive, body-based method of image making, in which he used the hand-held portable camera as a gestural extension of the body in a physical exchange with his subject. Byrne explored this aesthetic primarily in innovative video dance collaborations that were choreographed and performed specifically for video. Intense physicality, performance, and the human figure are central to these works.
ITEM 1983.043 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Both – James Byrne
Morning Event No. 26 – James Byrne
Handheld II – James Byrne
FloorCeiling – James Byrne
Intra, Intro – James Byrne
Number Five – James Byrne
Numbr Eight – James Byrne
Do You Have Any Identification? – James Byrne
Four Square – James Byrne
Scale Drawing – James Byrne
Phase – James Byrne
Lens Activity – James Byrne
I Like Mechanics Magazine – James Byrne
One Way – James Byrne
Water, of Place – James Byrne
Tikala Soom – James Byrne