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Liza Béar

During t​he ​late​ 1970s Liza Béar created an intriguing body of work that focuse​d​ on communications issues — specifically the use of media and the disempowered role of the public in communications policy. Central to Béar's ​early ​work ​was​ a desire to tie the means of production (technology) to the reasons for production (​economic advantage, national ideology, etc.). While Béar's concerns ​have diversified, her approach is always personal and experimental — collapsing the norms of narrative and documentary, subjective authorship and objective document.

 

 

 


Available Titles by Liza Béar

Title Year Runtime Collection
Earthglow 1983 00:08:00 Single Titles
Five Video Pioneers 1977 00:32:00 On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Homeward Bound 1988 00:11:50 Single Titles
Lost Oasis 1982 00:09:11 Single Titles
Oued Nefifik: A Foreign Movie 1982 00:27:13 Single Titles
Polisario: Liberation of the Western Sahara 1981 00:28:18 Single Titles
Problematizing Pleasure / Punk Theory 2017 01:07:18 Curated Compilations
Satellite TV: Birth of an Industry (Parts 1 & 2) 1980 00:56:00 Single Titles
Send/Receive I, and Send/Receive II 1977 01:01:40 Early Video Art, Single Titles
Spring Lake 2013 00:03:58 Single Titles
Towards a New World Information Order 1979 01:00:00 Early Video Art, Single Titles
Jackie Winsor: Work in Progress: Parts I, II and III 1978 00:56:00 On Art and Artists, Single Titles
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