Early Video Art | Video Data Bank

Early Video Art is a collection of titles that are central to an understanding of the historical development of video art. This collection includes, but is not limited to, many titles from the original Castelli-Sonnabend collection, the first and most prominent collection of video art assembled in the United States. All of the work in this collection was produced between 1968 and 1980. These works represent important examples of the first experiments in video art, and include conceptual and feminist performances recorded on video, experiments with the video signal, and "guerilla" documentaries representing a counter-cultural view of the historical events of the 1960s and 70s. Many of these tapes represent a desire for a radically redefined television experience that is centered on the innovative, the personal, the political and the non-commercial.

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Surveying the First Decade: Volume 2

1995 | 08:27:11

This comprehensive package on the history of experimental and independent video is an essential tool for teachers, libraries, and researchers.

Hans Breder

How Faustus Had His First Sight of Paradise

1971 | 00:09:00

Ana Mendieta performs a kiss in Old Man's Creek with another performer.

Hans Breder

hybrid

1970 | 00:11:00

The performer interprets a video demonstration of a series of poses with mirrors, not unlike Breder's Bod/Sculpture photo series, but this time in a studio.

Hans Breder

intertext

1976 | 00:12:00

Breder used Stavros Deligiorgis’s encyclopedic ability to make associations as an element in this video art and performances, providing a kind of intellectual running commentary in works such as…

Hans Breder

For C…, In Memory I

1971 | 00:01:45

Cheri Mcelligott performance documentation.

Hans Breder

Percussion Piece

1973 | 00:09:00

The body as a percussive instrument.

Performers: Ellen Krueger & Monica Wilson

Hans Breder

traces

2015 | 00:19:00

This 1978 conversation between poets Anselm Hollo and Robert Creeley, was updated in 2015 as Adam Burke relays their conversation. Images of Hollo, Creeley, and Burke are juxtaposed on…