Critical Writing Index

Histories: New Video Art

by Bob Riley

ICA Currents, 1988

Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1988

This essay, from the program guide for the exhibition Histories: New Video Art, examines the work of contemporary video artists who engage dramatic traditions and combinations of documentary forms, to address personal vision as comedy, tragedy or critique.

ITEM 1988.027 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

NomadsAysha Quinn and John Sturgeon

Aesthetics and/or TransportationDaniel Minahan

The Going Away PartyDaniel Noord and Greg Durbin

From the Archives of Modern ArtEleanor Antin

Private EyesLisa Steele and Kim Tomczak