Up yer bum with a Bengal lancer [videorecording] / The Kipper Kids ; video by John Baker, Dan Dimbaldi. [1976]

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Up yer bum with a Bengal lancer [videorecording] / The Kipper Kids ; video by John Baker, Dan Dimbaldi. [1976]

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Embodying a transgressive postminimal anti-aesthetic, the stage routines of the performance duo of Martin von Haselberg and Brian Routh, known as the Kipper Kids, combined slapstick violence, a monosyllabic grunting language, and an array of props and fluids. With this video, the Kipper Kids explore the possibilities of the video medium by working their well-rehearsed shtick into a new vernacular. The result is a kind of videographic grotesque in which von Haselberg and Routh enact for the camera a series of messy, masculine conflicts. Bookending the piece are two sequences in which von Haselberg mugs behind a distorting Fresnel lens--a frame within the video frame.

1 videocassette of 1 (Betacam SP) (26 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. original.1 videocassette of 1 (Digital Betacam) (26 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. copy master.1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (26 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. use copy.

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Kipper Kids (Group of artists)

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The performance art duo Kipper Kids was a collaborative project by Brian Routh (1948-2018, England) and Martin von Haselberg (b. 1949, Argentina) active from approximately 1971 to 1982. Routh and von Haselberg met at East 15 Acting School in London, England, in 1970. Following their expulsion from the school for disruption, the pair went to Germany, developing the character of "Harry Kipper" near a railway station in Frankfurt. They then traveled around Germany and to Paris, France, performin...

Long Beach museum of art

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The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) was among the first to focus on video as an artistic medium, spurring similar efforts throughout the United States. Beginning in 1974 the museum began collecting and exhibiting video art, later also actively encouraging the development of video art by co-producing projects and offering editing facilities to artists in its Video Annex. The museum's innovative approaches to the display of video art included several experiments with broadcast and cable television...