Video art, and how to survive it: It confounds most viewers, so Sarah Milroy decided to immerse herself in the medium. Here she surfaces with a primer for the rest of us
The Globe and Mail, Mar. 6, 2002
"I feed on television, on film, on sculpture, on literature. And because I take in all these things, I have a ridiculously complex set of references. Who am I?"
Take Video back to the roots, anti-authoritarian instincts alongside political passion and emotional rawness; intimate and confessional narrative. All of the above are briefed over in this article about Video art and its many manifestations.
ITEM 2002.023 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Reader by the Window – Jan Peacock
Birthday Suit - with Scars and Defects – Lisa Steele
Ballad of Dan Peoples – Lisa Steele