Dutch artists on television
Studio International, June 1971, v. 181, no. 934, pp. 276-277
A review of a film and video art programme entitled Artists make television, produced for Dutch television. The reviewer discusses in depth the four pieces commissioned for the programme, relating them to works created for Gery Schum's German television programmes, but emphasizing the fact that, unlike Schum's programmes ,Artists make television proposes no unifying theme. Instead, the four commissioned pieces address the issue of television in different ways, using the medium to four very distinct ends. The result is an important and novel contribution contemporary art on television.
ITEM 1971.004 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Painting I – Jan Dibbets
One Step – Stanley Brouwn
Pulling mouth – Bruce Nauman
Breathing on the tube – Boezem
Breathing on a glass plate between himself and the lens it dims – Boezem
Painting, phase 1: pale – Ger van Elk
Painting, phase 2: red – Ger van Elk
Sculpture, phase 1: perspiration – Ger van Elk
Sculpture, phase 2: goose-flesh – Ger van Elk
Differences in structure in place and time – Peter Struyken