Art Metropole

#15781

4 Hours and 38 Minutes

Artists

Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak

Editors

Dot Tuer and Philip Monk

Price

$45.00

Date

1989

Publisher

Art Gallery of Ontario

Format

Monographs

ISBN

978919777783

Genre

Rare & Out of Print, Canadian, Collaboration, Film/Video

Issued in conjunction with a 1989-1990 exhibition. “Since 1983 Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak have worked together producing videotapes. These tapes concentrate on mass media and cultural politics, and on the separation and itneraction of the two. Using the look and format of commercial television, the artists insert their own images and agendas, believing that ‘the mass media — television in particular — do not reflect most people’s lives.’ The exhibition focuses on the collaborative tapes, but as both artist have long histories as independent video producers — Lisa Steele since the early 1970s in Toronto and Kim Tomczak since the late 1970s in Vancouver — selections of their earlier videotapes are included as well.”