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Test Tube

Artist
General Idea
Date
1979
Publisher
Art Metropole
Format
Video
Details
Video
Description

Made for broadcast at De Appel, Holland, this tape incorporates television formats and video special effects in a witty and visually sophisticated production. General Idea uses the media to create a complex visual portrait of the artist in the 80’s. This tape represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, 1980.

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