4 Hours and 38 Minutes: Videotapes by Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak

Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1989. Softcover. G+ (Slight wear and scuffs to edges and surfaces of cover; interior generally clean.). Deep blue & illus. wraps, 56 pp., BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 1989-1990 exhibition. "Since 1983 Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak have worked together producing videotapes. These tapes concentrate on mass media and cultural politics, and on the separation and itneraction of the two. Using the look and format of commercial television, the artists insert their own images and agendas, believing that 'the mass media -- television in particular -- do not reflect most people's lives.' The exhibition focuses on the collaborative tapes, but as both artist have long histories as independent video producers -- Lisa Steele since the early 1970s in Toronto and Kim Tomczak since the late 1970s in Vancouver -- selections of their earlier videotapes are included as well.