[iDC] media curating as montage - 2 more historical lists

Paul D. Miller anansi1 at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 24 02:40:25 UTC 2007


Hello people - when I look at these lists, as a person of color, I 
find them incredibly depressing:  it makes me wonder why over and 
over and over there is limited representation of diverse points of 
view.

I guess I expected better of the list.


In any case, I'd love to amend this kind of thing with simple 
observations like:

Nam Jun Paik - Global Groove

Valentine de St. Point - "Manifesto of Lust"

Black Net Art - Keith and Mendi Obadike

Mongrel

my own work such as remixes of D.W. Griffith etc etc

Olu Oguibe

Adrian Piper's mid 1970's video works

Lorna Simpson's video work

Japanese electronic music composers like Toshiro Mayuzumi and Ryuichi Sakamoto

Otolith Collective

Blacktronica

Drexciya

there's plenty more - gasp - people of color doing digital media, and 
yes, one can think of sampling as collage/montage.


There's plenty plenty plenty more if you would open your eyes and 
look around. It's a big world.


etc etc

Paul





>Hello all.
>
>Here are 2 more curatorial lists.  Each was written for media screenings
>that occurred in the 1980s.
>
>The point is curatorial construction of a whole greater than the parts
>(the individual media works) - and what that process produces...the
>curatorial "text".
>
>What happens to the curatorial text when the individual works are
>forgotten, lost, or worse...enter the canon?
>
>How could the individual works get reinterpreted through a curatorial
>process that parallels the structuring of the individual works themselves?
>
>--------------------
>
>Curatorial List 1 -  Dan Walworth curated the following program for
>Artists Space, NYC, 1986.  You can link to a pdf file that reproduces
>the program listing at:
>
>http://www.wildernesspuppets.net/yarns/curating/danwalworth.pdf
>
>
>The Fairy Tale:  Politics, Desire and Everyday Life
>
>
>- "Curlylocks and the Three Brothers", by Jacqueline Frazier (1985)
>
>- "So Where's My Prince Already", by Ardele Lister (1973-76)
>
>- "Lying in State", by Norman Cowie (1986)
>
>- "Fractured Fairy Tales", by Jay Ward Productions (undated)
>
>- "Kappa", by Bruce and Norman Yonemoto (1986)
>
>- "Upside Down and Backwards", by Joan Jonas (1979)
>
>- "Columbus Discovers America", by Sarah Drury (1986)
>
>
>--------------------
>
>Curatorial List 2 -  Chris Hill curated the following program for
>Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, in 1987.  You can link
>to a pdf file that reproduces the program notes at:
>
>http://www.wildernesspuppets.net/yarns/curating/chrishill3.pdf
>
>
>The Medicine Show
>
>
>- "Bright Eyes", by Stuart Marshall
>
>- "There is a Myth", by Catherine Elwes
>
>- "Marca Registrada", by Leticia Parente
>
>-  untitled (cataract surgery), by John Park, M.D., and Bill Howard
>
>- "Image is Virus", by Ivekovic/Martinis
>
>- "Seizure", by Pat Hearn
>
>- "Debate of the Dead", by Ellin Stein and Betsey Newman
>
>- "The Micciah Channel", by Julie Winter
>
>- "Water Journey", by Jon Child
>
>- untitled documentation of hypnotherapy with Milton Erickson,M.D.
>
>
>--------------------
>
>best regards,
>
>Barbara
>
>-----------------------
>Barbara Lattanzi
>www.wildernesspuppets.net
>www.wildernesspuppets.net/invaders/
>
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