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The Space Between the Teeth & Truth Through Mass Individuation
Bill Viola's longtime involvement with music explains the percussive quality of sound and rhythmic manipulation of time within his works. In The Space Between the Teeth, he creates a complex visual tempo, accenting the transitions of changing images and the directions of sound for a final harmonious blend. Truth Through Mass Individuation presents first 4 separate environments, each containing a potential quality of sound, which Viola proceeds to tap through a performance.

• By Bill Viola. (1977, 20 mins, color)

Merce by Merce by Paik/This is Dance & You Can't Lick Stamps in China
Merce Cunningham and Nam June Paik share the stage in an effort to collaborate video and dance. In the first segment of their program, Merce by Merce..., Cunningham directs what initially appears as the simple documentation of several performing dancers. Paik, controlling the latter half of the project, uses the freedom of electronic space to interpret the nature of dance in innovative terms. Nam June Paik takes videotape footage shot by Gregory Battcock on an ocean cruise to China, and enhances it with a video-synthesizer in You Can't Lick Stamps in China. The richness of the special effects reflects not only the animation and the diversity of the material, but also the subjective response of the artists to their subject.

• Merce By Merce... By Merce Cunningham and Nam June Paik. (1978, 20 mins, color)
Stamps... By Nam June Paik and Gregory Battcock. (1979, 35 mins, color)

Pink Beans
Eva Maier works out a series of 5 studies in an attempt to portray the cross-effects of video/dance alliances. The segments show how the triangular perception of videospace and the puppet-like quality of a television image co-mingle with the time, space and movement of dance, to produce a commentary on the two art forms.
• By Eva Maier. (1978, 15 mins, color and b&w)