The Electronic Body: Michael Maziere Presents Recent British Video Art

This program is a selection of contemporary video works from the United Kingdom which highlight new directions and concerns centered around the body, technology, identity and sexuality. These ten works go far afield in their diverse approaches to the subjects: from Mike Stubbs's Sweatlodge, a provocative documentation of a performance by Man Act, to Sophie Outram's Many Scars, a look at physical disability through the metaphor of a railway; from David Slade's A Carnivorous Landscape, in which the body disappears within virtual space, to Julie Kuzminska's Chaos, a paean to the erotics of flight and falling. A range of high- and low-end technology is employed to articulate new states of consciousness, challenging our boundaries and creating radical and sensual experiences. Chaos (Julie Kuzminska, 1992, 3 mins); Corpus (Jason White & Richard Wright, 1992, 6 mins); Absurd (John Maybury, 1990, 5 mins); Many Scars (Sophie Outram, 1992, 9 mins); The Nation's Finest (Keith Piper, 1990, 7 mins); Sweatlodge (Mike Stubbs, 1991, 7 mins); Pars Pro Tors (Martin Wolff & Viet Lup, 1991, 15 mins); A Carnivorous Landscape (David Slade, 1992, 11 mins); Kissy Kusuli Suck (Alison Murray, 1992, 20 mins); The Leap (No Leap) (Akiko Hada, 1993, 23 mins).

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