Demo tape [videorecording] / Candace Compton ; produced by the Los Angeles Women's Video Center. [ca. 1978]

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Demo tape [videorecording] / Candace Compton ; produced by the Los Angeles Women's Video Center. [ca. 1978]

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This tape contains excerpts from works made by Candace Compton in collaboration with the Los Angeles Women's Video Center. Highlights include a public service announcement about childcare and video documentation of two public performances by Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz, one in response to sensational media coverage of a serial rapist and murderer known as the Hillside Strangler, the other a feminist analysis of album covers depicting women as victims of sexual and other violence.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-matic) (5 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 3/4 in. original (2 copies)1 videocassette of 1 (Digital Betacam) (5 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in. copy master.1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (5 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. use copy.

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Los Angeles Women's Video Center

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In 1976, the Los Angeles Women's Video Center was established at the Woman's Building. Founded by Annette Hunt, Candace Compton, Nancy Angelo, and Jerri Allyn, the Center supported the work of, among others, Nancy Buchanan, Cheri Gaulke, Susan Mogul, Suzanne Lacy, Sheila Ruth, Judith Barry, and Vanalyne Green. An impressive 350 videotapes were produced, many of them during the first decade of the Women's Video Center's existence. In addition to teaching, this group organized the production of n...

Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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In 1973, artist Judy Chicago, graphic designer Sheila Levant de Bretteville, and art historian Arlene Raven founded the Feminist Studio Workshop (FSW), one of the first independent schools for women artists. The founders established the workshop as a non-profit alternative education center committed to developing art based on women's experiences. The FSW focused not only on the development of art skills, but also on the development of women's experiences and the incorporation of th...

Lacy, Suzanne

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Suzanne Lacy (born 1945) is an American artist, educator, writer, and professor at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. She has worked in a variety of media, including installation, video, performance, public art, photography, and art books, in which she focuses on "social themes and urban issues." She served in the education cabinet of Jerry Brown, then mayor of Oakland, California, and as arts commissioner for the city. She designed multiple educational programs beginning with her role as p...

Compton, Candace

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Candace Compton Pappas (born 1951) is a painter, sculptor, performer and filmmaker who was active in Los Angeles feminist circles in the 1970s. Compton Pappas’ 1976 film Nun and Deviant, which she made with Nancy Angelo, is considered a canonical work of early feminist video. She also co-founded the Feminist Art Workers in 1976, along with Angelo, Cheri Gaulke, and Laurel Klick. The ground breaking performance Art group emerged from the Women’s Building in Los Angeles, and traveled the country a...

Labowitz, Leslie

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Leslie Labowitz-Starus is an American performance artist and urban farmer based in Los Angeles. Labowitz-Starus worked at the Woman's Building, a cultural center just east of Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles devoted to feminist art and cultural change. From 1977 to 1980, Labowitz-Starus and Suzanne Lacy collaborated on a series of large-scale performances that often took place in public settings. Their first collaboration was In Mourning and in Rage. Together they founded ARIADNE: A Social Art...