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Infermental 7 Buffalo, USA, 1988 Editors Chris Hill
/ Tony Conrad / Peter Weibel As an internationally solicited
project, Infermental affords its editors the opportunity to review at
one time an unusually broad range of work. As a juror encountering such
a field, I found myself caught up with issues concerning the tapes’
various modes of address. I was curious as to whether we would find a
broad menu of video “dialects” or rather be impressed by some
predictable and legible gestures, suggesting perhaps a widespread engagement
with a particular art discourse or a desire for visibility to a specific
audience. Perhaps modes of address is presently an American cultural preoccupation,
with the clamor of many markets aggressively demanding our attentions
within our commodity-driven lives. But more and more it seems that video
artists do have the gamble the inspiration, production and reception of
their work in a field that demands their weighing of the resources (tools
and audiences) offered by a confidently established television industry
against a less centralized art and / or alternative cultural or infoemotional
scene.
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