Two new editions of MM
The subject in these editions, VOL 1#1 and VOL 1#2 are two aspects of media art; the role of mass media and the media artist in society; the design of the equipment the media artist makes use of. Also attention for the substantive consequences of a reduction of funding from the government for media art that was a threat that year.
New work by Frits Maats
On April the 3d was the presentation of three new video works by Frits Maats entitled Distance, Karnak and InSumma in the Artotheek in Groningen.
...through this medium I can immediately attain over, sound, light, color, movement, technology and my own history as a painter; I'm a sculptor, composer, choreographer, painter and director...
Eyed Cyclops
On December the 13th there was on show the exhibition of promising Dutch video art in cooperation with Artotheek Groningen.
Richard Hefti in the Martini Church
In the Martinikerk in Groningen the installation Libretto '86 by Richard Hefti was exhibited from the 12th till the 30th of August, 1986. Organised by Mediamatic and Artotheek Groningen.
2x Live Performance and Video
Performances by artists from the UK and Ireland, on May the 15th, 1986 in Artotheek Groningen.
Scented Island, a social pulp relationship for the evening by Marty St. James and Anne Wilson, is at first sight a lighthearted show with singing and dancing.
Nigel Rolfe describes The Rope as "a cultural analysis of being English in Ireland".
Frank/Koen Theys Song of My Country
A video staging of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen. The brothers Theys developed a videographic version of Wagner's leitmotif technique to provide Boulez's interpretation with appropriate TV pictures.
Video Art
8 evenings with video art and music in Artotheek Groningen.
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