[from page 53 of the catalogue] YOUTH MEDIA FORUM
The Australian International Video Festival - Essay Early Days Yet John Conomos
Video Spell
John Gillies and the Craft of Video Nicholas Zurbrugg Writing in Trans-avantgarde International (1982) a mere decade ago, the Italian critic and curator Achille Bonito-Oliva argued that the whole “generalized situation of catastrophe” (p48) characterizing the late seventies and eighties had “caused the historical optimism of the avant-garde – the idea of...
Call of the Wild (catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydneyby Rachel Kent (2002)
John Gillies and the Craft of Video Nicholas Zurbrugg Writing in Trans-avantgarde International (1982) a mere decade ago, the Italian critic and curator Achille Bonito-Oliva argued that the whole “generalized situation of catastrophe” (p48) characterizing the late seventies and eighties had “caused the historical optimism of the avant-garde – the idea of...