Black & white [videorecording] / Iveković & Martinis. [1985]

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Black & white [videorecording] / Iveković & Martinis. [1985]

With a layered narrative structure, Black and white addresses sexual politics and personal relationships. As a man and woman play a stylized game of chess, the board transforms into a kitchen floor being washed by a female hand. The video concludes with text: "Sometimes I think we are only together because of the game."

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (10 min.) : col. ; 3/4 in. original.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6912049

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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...

Iveković, Sanja, 1949-

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Martinis, Dalibor

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