Coaxing the Cable: Video by Artists for Cable Television

Coaxing the Cable: Video by Artists for Cable Television

Artists: Chris Creighton-Kelly, Anne Ramsden, Sam Krizan, Tony McAuley, Dimitrije Mantinovic, Anne Mandlson, howard Rypp, Elizabeth Chitty, Anne Milne, Paul Wong, and Marion Barling

Date: July 13 to August 31, 1982

Coaxing the Cable, coordinated by Chris Creighton-Kelly, was an eight-week series "cablecast" Wednesdays at 8:00 pm on Channel 10, which presented the videotapes of ten Canadian artists who work was designed for home audiences, in contrast to the usual gallery setting for "art" videotapes. 

The series included:

Anne Ramsden, Manufactured Romance Part One: Chance for Love; 

Sam Krizan and Tony Mcauley, Turbulence #2; 

Dimitrije Mantinovic, My Mother Makes Soup Noodles...My Father Cuts a Simple Thread, Boy on A Swing and Pistol Shots; 

Anne Mandlson and Howard Rypp, The Vision Quest; 

Elizabeth Chitty, T.V. Love and Dogmachine; 

Anne Milne, The Sinatra Petition; 

Paul Wong, Prime Cuts, Can't Come Back and Don't Say It; 

Marion Barling, It's Not Your Imagination.