Work Type:screening
Date of work:1997
Measurements:duration : 75 min
Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:humour, dog
Technique:curating
Collection:Video Postive Archive 1989 - 2000
Description:
A newly re-mastered selection of perennially popular performance cameos featuring video artist and photographer William Wegman and his canine sidekick Man Ray.

These pioneering video works (full of disarming sight-gags and droll, absurd monologues) still inspire enormous affection more than twenty years after they were first made.


The programme is completed by a complementary selection of recent works by young contemporary artists who, turning to the video camcorder as a way of making arresting and accessible work, have clearly been influenced by Wegman's deadpan, just-do-it aesthetic.


Programme 75 mins approx, includes:
William Wegman 40 minute selection USA
Never A Dumb Moment:
UNTITLED (CLOSE LICK) Stephanie Smith UK 1995
Sit Alan Currall UK 1994
UNTITLED MUSIC VIDEO 1
Kristin Bjorseth/Henrik de Minassian Norway 1995
HOT MUSIC Sean Dower UK 1995
YELLOW Arran Crabbe UK 1995
DRIVER Anne-Marie Copestake UK 1994
UNTITLED MUSIC VIDEO 2 Kristin Bjorseth Henrik der
Minassian Norway 1995
ZIP ZAP Guillaume Laidain/Frederic Drappier
France 1995
HISTOIRE NATURELLE Guillaume Paris France 1996
UNTITLED MUSIC VIDEO 3 Kristin Bjorseth Henrik der
Minassian Norway 1995
NOSE Monika Oechsler UK 1995
JETSAM Alan Currall UK 1995
THIS CHARMING MAN Jonathan Monk UK 1995
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Source:"Video Positive 97: Escaping Gravity", festival catalogue
Date of source:1997