The West
Tuesday, February 17, 1987 - Sunday, March 29, 1987
The West, a six-screen video installation that explores the ancient and contemporary records of mankind's actions on the desert landscape, was produced by noted media artists Steina Vasulka (video) and Woody Vasulka (audio) for the State University of New York.
Austerely minimal in conception, yet rich in imagery and sound, The West generates a phenomenological expression of vast space and silence. Ms. Vasulka's camera has recorded the ceremonial sites of Chaco Canyon, home of the ancient Anasazi people, ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians; the ruins of a Spanish church at Quarai; and New Mexico's VLA (Very Large Array) radio-telescope system.
Austerely minimal in conception, yet rich in imagery and sound, The West generates a phenomenological expression of vast space and silence. Ms. Vasulka's camera has recorded the ceremonial sites of Chaco Canyon, home of the ancient Anasazi people, ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians; the ruins of a Spanish church at Quarai; and New Mexico's VLA (Very Large Array) radio-telescope system.
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