Anne Seagrave & Oscar McLennan: Residency
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. V, no. 2, p. 6, November/December 1993: Oscar McLennan and Anne Seagrave are performance artists from Ireland, whose…
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Mz. Frankenstein
Artist in residence. A video production adapted from Mars’ Ms. Frankenstein performance. It takes the form of an imagistic narrative presented in the classic “infomercial” style.…
Murmur
Artist in residence. Murmur is a two-channel installation, commissioned by the IKON Gallery in Birmingham, England for the exhibition Beyond Distinction. Murmur was shot largely…
Battle of the Titans
This work investigates the relations between a mother and child. The tape was produced during a residency at the Western Front in 1990 and edited in 1992…
Living Dusts
A special production. “Living Dusts pursues a variegated itinerary through videated banality, the propositional power of the written sentence and the electronic elimination of space and…
Front 1 and 2: Stories for Video
A special production. “We detect the isolation of subjectivity only when the work is finished, discrepancy is retrospective and respected, integration is therefore a byproduct.…
Initiation Rite/Sacred Bath – Rito de Iniciacion/Bano Sagrado
Artist-in-residence. Special production. Reconstructed rituals invented from her grandmother’s descriptions of African voodoo practices.
Vancouver Tree-Line
A special production. Done in tandem with Stewart’s performance work, Pilgrim-Exile, as part of his 1989 residency at the Western Front. “This video tape is…
Picture Window
A special production, in collaboration with Brice MacNeil (aka Art McP). The culmination of stolen bits from Vincente Minnelli’s film Some Come Running, mixed with…
TV Spots
A special production. Twelve short tapes designed for broadcast among the commercials that inhabit late night television. Only one spot should be transmitted on any…
Measures of Distance and Eyes Skinned
Original Archive Entry: A special production. Measures of Distance is about a mother and daughter’s joyous reunion, despite a doting father’s jealous presence, during the…
Joy Ride™
A special production. Thematically inspired by institutional vs. private sector ‘devotion’ to the transcendental. As guardians of the cultural torch, theme parks and museums herd…
The Story of Feniks and Abdullah
A special production. Abdullah arrives in a city. He phones Feniks. Answering machine. Heart Slash. Passenger. Traveller, Foreigner. Outsider. Tourist. Video poetry adapted from A…
La Oscuridad de Mi Lengua (The Darkness of My Language)
Artist-in-residence. Special production. Rosenfeld did a performance, to which participants were invited, that included a brief entry into the justice minister’s office, the playing of…
En Attendant la Pluie, Leurs Mains
A special production. En Attendant la Pluie (Waiting for the Rain): In voice-over, Alice Jeffrey recounts the history of the Flood in Gitksan (a Native language…
Exclusive Memory 4-9-19
A special production, originally conceived of as an installation. Its component elements, in particular a series of three edited, 60- minute videotapes, can be screened…
Sybaris
A special production. An adaptation of literal imaginings inspired by descriptions in a short story written by Giorgio de Chirico in 1929 entitled Hebdomeros. Passages in…
Sometexts
A special production. Created on the Cubicomp computer from previous publications. The texts are arranged so that a release is experienced from the constraints of…