The Legart Archive
A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain was the title of a series of exhibitions in 1972 at Gallery House, 50 Princes Gate, Kensington, UK during which films from the London Filmmakers Cop were screened. The catalogue for the exhibition at Raven Row, London E1 in 2017 revisits some of the issues of the original event.
A publication list submitted to JCATS UK Video Abstracts c. 1976. (PDF at left)
The first screening made in Australia having arrived as a new migrant. See also Australia Tour 1981.
A highly respected cinemateque that used the planetarium on the campus of the University of Colorado. The season included George Landow, Peter Gidal, Carmen Vigil and myself in person with other screenings of work by Stan Brackage and others.
The Recollection was the title of an exhibition curated by the Arts Officer, Hugh Stoddard, from South West Arts of artists’ work from across a range of media. The show used a calendar format as a catalogue, (though there were no essays included), the January page image being based on post-production notes made during the editing of Window, the third part of the film series Sheepman & the Sheared, a film shot throughout a 12 month period.
The exhibition and screening program at the Hayward Gallery, London in March and April, was sponsored by the Artists’ Film Committee of the Arts Council of Greta Britain. The Sheepman & the Sheared series was included, along with a working drawing from the film Erota/Afini. An essay by Deke Dusinberre provides a critical response to the series.
The two-week event, the 2nd international gathering in London, featured some 150 filmmakers; single and double screen projection and the new kid on the block, VIDEO! My contribution was the premiere of the film, Erota/Afini with specially prepared piano interlude, the exhibition of the poster print Video and Video/Film and a video installation based on the videotape ‘Laugh’; two monitors were placed back to back each facing an audience in full view of one other.
British Artists’ Video in the 70s and 80s – Rewind: the Formative Years. The exhibition followed a significant research and archiving project, funded by the Humanties Research Council of GB.
International touring exhibition of some 150 works sponsored by the Arts Council of GB. Including Erota / Afini, a book made with Felipe Ehrenberg at Beau Geste Press in 1973, a 16mm film version being made in the same year and screened during the International Festival of Avant-Garde Film, National Film Theatre, London, 1973.
Organised by Sigi Krauss in the recently vacated German Cultural Centre in Kensington, London, the program known as Studio House, ran over several of the summer months.