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Unplugging the Evil Twin, the Dismantler, and the Singer of Songs: A De-mediatization of Video Art

2006; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 127; Linguagem: Inglês

10.3138/ctr.127.005

1920-941X

Alissa Firth-Eagland,

Cinema and Media Studies

In March 2005, I curated Feats, might., an evening of live performances, for Fado Performance Inc. The evening was presented by Fado and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. I approached artists who had performed extensively but only on video and only in their own productions. I asked them each to perform “unplugged” in front of a live audience for the first time. Daniel Cockburn, Brian Joseph Davis and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay developed a new live work for a physically present and captive crowd at the historic Great Hall Centre in Toronto.