Multi-media : video--installation--performance

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'Multi-Media' charts the development of multi-media video, installation and performance in a unique dialogue between theoretical analysis and specially commissioned documentations by some of the world's foremost artists. Content: Medium, remedy, mortality, fiction, acting, absence, capture, loss, recognition / Fiona Templeton -- Introduction : live video -- builders association and Motiroti, Alladeen -- Video time/performance time -- Experimental television : Nam June Paik -- Unmeasuring time : John Cage, Paik and Fluxus Video -- Dividing the present tense of space : Bruce Nauman, Dan Graham -- Delay and the subject : Joan Jonas -- Open my glade / Pipilotti Rist -- Video space/performance space -- In and out of performance : Vito Acconci -- Aura and division : Acconci's command performance -- Acting in the space between : Studio Azzurro, Pipilotti Rist -- Media presence : Gary Hill's projective installations -- Confidential report on an interactive experience / Paolo Rosa -- Multiplying media -- Multiplication : the Wooster group -- Convergence : John Jesurun -- Return : the builders association -- Snow / John Jesurun -- Conclusion : seen and unseen -- Acconci studio and the Mekons : theater project for a rock band, 1995 / Vito Acconci. Abstract: Combines scholarly analysis and original work to present a investigation of multi-media arts practice. This work charts the development of multi-media video, installation and performance in a dialogue between theoretical analysis and documentations by some of the world's foremost artists including Vito Acconci; John Jesurun; and, Fiona Templeton. Read more...