Dara Birnbaum
An architect and urban planner by training, Dara Birnbaum began using video in 1978 while teaching at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, where she worked with Dan Graham. Recognized as one of the first video artists to employ the appropriation of television images as a subversive strategy, Birnbaum recontextualizes pop cultural icons (Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978-79) and TV genres (Kiss the Girls: Make them Cry, 1979) to reveal their subtexts. Birnbaum describes her tapes as new “ready-mades” for the late 20th Century—works that “manipulate a medium which is itself highly manipulative.”
Available Titles by Dara Birnbaum
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Dara Birnbaum: Damnation of Faust Trilogy | 2001 | Single Artist Compilations |
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Canon: Taking to the Street | 1990 | Single Titles |
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Damnation of Faust: Evocation | 1983 | Single Titles |
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Damnation of Faust: Will-o'-the-Wisp (A Deceitful Goal) | 1985 | Single Titles |
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Evocation of Faust: Charming Landscape | 1987 | Single Titles |
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Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry | 1979 | Early Video Art, Single Titles |
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PM Magazine/Acid Rock | 1980 | Early Video Art, Single Titles |
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Pop-Pop Video: General Hospital/Olympic Women Speed Skate | 1980 | Early Video Art, Single Titles |
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Pop-Pop Video: Kojak/Wang | 1980 | Early Video Art, Single Titles |
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Problematizing Pleasure / Punk Theory | 2017 | Curated Compilations |
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Remy/Grand Central Trains and Boats and Planes | 1980 | Early Video Art, Single Titles |
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Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman | 1978 | Early Video Art, Single Titles |
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The Whole World is (Still) Watching | 2016 | Curated Compilations, Compilations |
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