Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery video collection

Gene Flores, Sculptor / Santa Cruz, California, 1978, undated

box 3, item V13

Dub of edited master, 1978

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) : sound ; 3/4 in.

box 3, item V15

Slide program, second generation, undated

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (7 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4 in.

First Biennial Juried Exhibition, 1978-1987

box 1, folder 2

Newcomers, 1987

box 2, folder 1

Ephemera, 1987

box 4, item V26

Ulysses Jenkins, 1978

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) : sound ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Recorded in 1978, with a 1980 copyright date.

box 1, folder 8

The Artist as Social Critic, 1979

Scope and Contents

Includes artists' CVs, artists' statements, copies of correspondence, lists of exhibiting artists, and exhibition inventories.

LA Seen by LA Artists, 1980, 1981 March

box 1, folder 6

Papers, 1980

Scope and Contents

Includes artists' CVs, artists' statements, copies of correspondence, lists of exhibiting artists, and exhibition inventories.

box 2, folder 2

Editorials, 1981 March

Scope and Contents

Contains copies of editorials of the exhibition.

African Storyteller / Jimi Solanke / Studio of Matthew Thomas, 1981

Scope and Contents

Description on media reads: Producer/director Sheila Ruth. / Funded by a grant from the California Arts Council.

box 3, item V9

Third generation copy from master, 1981

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (19 min., 15 sec.) : mono ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Description on media reads: Produced/directed by Sheila Ruth. / L.B. Museum, Sony 2860A -> Sony 2860A 5/8/81.

box 3, item V10

Edited, shorter version, 1981

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (16 min., 40 sec.) : stereo, color ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Description on media reads: Produced/directed by Sheila Ruth.

box 3, item V11

Copy for Jimi Solanke, 1981

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (19 min., 15 sec.) : mono, color ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Description on media reads: Produced/directed by Sheila Ruth. / Shot on October 13, 1980; edited on May 8, 1981. / Third generation copy 10/16/81, J.A.C. / 2600 -> VO 4800.

box 3, item V12

Third generation copy, 1981

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (19 min., 15 sec.) : stereo, color ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Description on media reads: Produced/directed by Sheila Ruth. / Third generation copy, LBMA Video, 10/13/81, Sony VP 2011 -> JVC 6066 U.

box 4, item V16

Carlos Almaraz: East Los Artist, 1981 August 11

Scope and Contents

Description on media reads: Produced/directed by Sheila Ruth. / Third generation copy, T.B.C. copy, 10/13/91, LBMA Video.

box 4, item V17

Why We Need Each Other / The Animal's Peace Day / Carlos Almaraz drawings, circa 1981

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.

Ulysses Jenkins, 1981-1987

box 1, folder 9

Programs I and II papers, 1981-1987

box 4, item V24

Program I, 1981, 1983

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (51 min., 40 sec.) : sound ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Content: 1. Inconsequential Doggereal (1981) (15 min.) / 2. Dream City: The Videotape (1983) (5 min.) / 3. Dream City: The ritual-video-performance (1983) (30 min.).

Description from program notes: Inconsequential Doggereal, the vertigo presents contradictions which question issues surrounding compatability, poetic lyricism and traditional intonations associated with normal television consumption. / Dream City: The ritual-video-performance, originally recorded and performed in September 1981 at Rachel Rosenthal's ESPACE DBD, this thirty minute presentation reinterprets the concerns of the eighteen hour performance by giving each of the illusions performed by the attending artists more exposure.

box 4, item V25

Program II, 1983-1987

Program II (digitized version available on-site only): [1983-1987]

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Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (56 min., 57 sec.) : sound ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Content: 1. ZGRASS (1983) (3 min.) / 2. Without Your Representation (1984) (13 min.) / 3. Peace and Anwar Sadat (1986) (21 min.) / 4. Ever *4* Us (1987) (17 min.).

Description from program notes: ZGRASS, computer generated images designed with an electronic paint program entitled ZGRASS. / Without Your Representation, this videotape is a video-performance from a live performance in the downtown L.A. area near the L.A. River at an alternative art gallery which was called "The Art Dock." / Peace and Anwar Sadat, this video-performance pays tribute to one of the world's most formidable peace activists: ANWAR SADAT OF EGYPT. / Ever*4*Us, this videotape is conceived in sonata form; in terms of the sonic poetic interplay.

About T.V.: Appropriation and Parody in Contemporary Video Art, 1986-1989

box 1, folder 5

Papers, 1989

Scope and Contents

Includes program notes, and copies of editorials of the exhibition.

box 4, item V18

Program 3: Burning Monk by Hye Sook, 1987

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (60 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Content warning: This videotape contains graphic images of a Buddhist monk's self-immolation.

Description from program notes: Hye Sook appropriated the original footage of the Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc's self-immolation in June, 1963.

box 4, item V19

Program 5: Bambo Samba by Jane Cantillon / Vote Nihilism '88 by Elisha Shapiro, 1988

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) : sound ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Content: 1. Bambo Samba by Jane Cantillon (3 min.) / 2. Vote Nihilism '88 (14 min., 30 sec.).

Description from program notes: A humorous parody of rock videos featuring a Carmen Miranda-like [figure] sambaing with a bevy of bambos.

box 4, item V21

Works by Jim Shaw, Chris Innes, and Michael Parker, approximately 1987-1989, circa 1987

Works by Jim Shaw, Chris Innes, and Michael Parker (digitized version available on-site only): [approximately 1987-1989]

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Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) : 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Content: Bullet (6 min.) / The Andersons / True/False Mirror / Billy Goes to a Party (30 min.) / What's Happening (10 min., 3 sec.).

Description from program notes: Bullet investigates a correlation between television and hypnotism. Scan lines mesmerize the viewer as a text instructs one on the how-to's of hypnotism. / The Andersons is an animated parody of a familiar cartoon studio tells the tale of young boy's daydreams while in church. / True/False Mirror is an experimental video using a familiar television logo and surreal film references. / Billy Goes to a Party is a contemporary portrayal of Billy's experiences at a 60's type party. / What's Happening is Jim Shaw's latest edition to his previous trilogy, it features the Obedient Christian lecturing on the ills of television.

Original media reads: Program 6: Bullet / The Andersons / True/False Mirror / Billy Goes to a Party / What's Happening.

box 4, item V20

Program 6: "Out" Takes by John C. Goss / Spin Off by Kathy Tanney, 1987, 1989

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) : sound ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Content: 1. "Out" Takes by John C. Goss (1989) (13 min.) / 2. Spin Off by Kathy Tanney (1987) (13 min.).

Description on media reads: Audio Channel 1 and 2.

Description from program notes: In "Out" Takes, gay sensibility, homophobia and gender roles on broadcast television are outlined by juxtaposing scenes from two popular children's shows from the United States and Japan intertwined with an outraged critic's campy critique. / Spin Off is a love story of visual pleasure and blind devotion. Mary Richards and J. R. Ewing meet and romance each other's projections of a viewer's imagination.

box 4, item V22

Program 8: Television Believers by Aron Ranen / Herb Schiller Reads Trash T.V., Paper Tiger Southwest, 1986

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) : sound ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Content: 1. Television Believers (27 min., 30 sec.) / 2. Herb Schiller (28 min.).

Description from program notes: In Television Believers, a TV faith healer is uncovered as a huckster as his source of "divine inspiration" is revealed. / In Herb Schiller Reads Trash T.V., the contemporary phenomenon of Trash TV is critiqued by Herb Schiller.

box 4, item V28

Television Believers by Aron Ranen, 1986 December 2

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (26 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4 in.

Frank Munns Performance at MUNI, 1987 May 9

box 3, item V1

Edited master, 1987 May 9

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) : sound ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Description on media reads: Audio Channel 1.

box 3, item V2

Tape 1, original master, 1987 May 9

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) : sound ; 3/4 in.

box 3, item V3

Tape 2, original master, 1987 May 9

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) : sound ; 3/4 in.

box 3, item V4

Tape 3, original master, 1987 May 9

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) : sound ; 3/4 in.

Other Gods: Containers of Belief, 1987 April-May, undated

box 1, folder 4

Artists / Reviews for Other Gods..., 1987 April-May

Scope and Contents

Includes exhibition checklist, installations list, list of artists' addresses, and copies of exhibition reviews.

box 3, item V5

Video documentation of exhibit, undated

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) : sound ; 3/4 in.

box 3, item V8

Bambo Samba by Jane Cantillon, 1988

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) : sound ; 3/4 in.

box 3, item V6

Bullet, Chris Innis with Michael Parker, 1988

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (6 min.) : sound ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Possible duplicate of About T.V.: Appropriation and Parody in Contemporary Video Art program. See item V21.

Description on media reads: Made at CalArts.

box 3, item V14

Forced Out, 1989

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (6 min.) : sound ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Description on media reads: California State University, Dominguez Hills.

box 4, item V23

Paper Tiger Television, Herb Schiller on Trash T.V. Desperately Seeking Reality, 1989

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (28 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Description on media reads: Audio 1 and 2.

box 3, item V7

Constance E. O'Meara / JAC/MAG, 1991

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) : sound ; 3/4 in.

Roland Reiss, 1991

box 1, folder 7

Papers, 1991 December 7-26

Scope and Contents

Includes Roland Reiss' CV, copies of exhibition reviews for Roland Reiss: A Seventeen Year Survey, and program notes.

box 4, item V27

Video recording, 1991

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (8 min., 30 sec.) : sound ; 3/4 in.

Scope and Contents

Description on media reads: Exhibition reel repeats 7 times. / Produced and directed by Joe Leonardi.

box 5, item V34

AMEN by Wendy Clarke, 1992

Amen (digitized version available on-site only): [1992]

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Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : mono, color ; 1/2 in.

box 5, item V31

LA Freewaves Video Festival, Fast Focus: Southern California Youth Speak Out, 1992

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Scope and Contents

Description on media reads: Cable program 4. / Curated by Martha Chono-Helsley, Gina Lamb and Quito Hernandez. / Works featured in this cable program were also featured in Discovery of a Different Kind: Youth Look at Past, Present, and Future, Tuesday, October 13, 1992 at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery and Theater.

box 5, item V37

Excerpts / Mehmet Sander Dance Company, circa 1994

Excerpts / Mehmet Sander Dance Company (digitized version available on-site only): [undated]

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Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

box 5, item V36

Graffiti Verite, Bob Bryan Productions, 1995

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Scope and Contents

Description on media reads: Bootleg.

box 5, item V35

Habib Kheradyar, Untitled, 1996 June 24

The Climb / Habib Kheradyar (digitized version available on-site only): 1996

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Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (45 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Scope and Contents

Description on media reads: Performance, The Climb, 6/24/96, actual time, 45 mins; edited video, 10 mins. / Exhibition Investigations.

box 5, item V33

Head Space, Jessica Newman-Skrentny, circa 1996

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

box 1, folder 3

Skin and Bones, 1996-1997

Scope and Contents

Includes artists' CVs, program notes, and copies of exhibition reviews.

Tomfoolery: Sounds, Songs & Stories by Tom Jenkins, 1982-2000 February 9

box 1, folder 1

Papers, 1982

Scope and Contents

Includes artist's CV, artist's statement, and copies of exhibition reviews.

box 5, item V30A-V30B

Videotapes, 2000 February 9

Physical Description: 2 videocassettes of 2 (VHS) (33 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

box 5, item V32

LA ATRSMIX #11, 2003 March 3

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (28 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

box 4, item V29

The Central Meridian, undated

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (11 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4 in.

box 6, item R1

[Untitled reel], undated

Scope and Contents

1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 4 tracks, stereo. ; 7 in., 1/2 in. tape.