On Art and Artists
The majority of the On Art and Artists collection represents almost 40 years of producing and acquiring interviews with contemporary artists, architects, theorists, and critics. The collection features interviews made by the Video Data Bank and co-founders Lyn Blumenthal & Kate Horsfield, as well as by other individual producers and producing organizations such as Artists Television Network, Long Beach Museum of Art, and the University of Colorado visiting artist program. In addition, the collection includes a number of titles relating to the artists' process, including experimental documentaries and profiles.
  This tape examines the meaning, impact, and future of the early-1980s avant-garde through interviews with artists (Scott B., Robert Longo, Walter Robinson, Michael Smith), an art dealer (Helene Winer, Metro Pictures), a museum director (Marcia...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: art criticism, art history, performance |
Elizabeth Peyton paints and draws portraits of people who are in some way close to her from magazines, books, and her own snapshots. Some of her subjects are personal friends, but many are historical figures or celebrities, blurring the lines of...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, painting, visual art |
Media artist Cyrille Phipps has been involved with numerous alternative media and lesbian activist projects, including Dyke TV and the Gay and Lesbian Emergency Media Campaign. Her video projects include Respect Is Due (1991), Black...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: activism, film or videomaking, interview, lgbt |
Ping Chong is choreographer, theater director, and installation artist. Considered a pioneer of avant-garde performance, Chong’s work incorporates many stylistic innovations including projections, sound scores, and ritualized movement.
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: asian-american, interview |
A philosopher and intermedia artist, Adrian Piper focuses on xenophobia, racism, and racial stereotyping “As a black woman who can 'pass' and a Professor of Philosophy who leads a double life as an avant-garde artist, Piper has...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: african-american, interview, mixed media, performance, philosophy, visual art |
Ingrid Pollard is a photographer living in London. Her photographic works, generally of people and landscape, serve to provide a human context for issues of transmigration and “fleeting” identity. Combining personal photographs with traditional...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, photography |
Tom Poole is executive director of Pittsburgh Community Television, a cable access network committed to alternative media. His has a history of working as a media activist and has produced work with Free Speech TV and Deep Dish TV. Interview by...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: activism, film or videomaking, interview |
This tape includes an interview with Larry Poons in his "barn" studio, combined with at a talk he gave at the New School. Poons is highly charged, articulate, and doesn't give a damn about the New York art world that made him famous in the 1960s...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: art criticism, art history, interview, painting, portrait, visual art |
Richard Prince appropriates images from commercial advertising and travelogues for his photographs. Choosing these images for their melodramatic, super-real power, he then isolates their stylistic realism to accentuate its rhetoric. In this...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: interview, photography |
