Selected Video Works By Juan Downey
Fresh Air, 1971
Plato Now, 1972
Three-Way Communication by Light, 1972
Monument to the Charles River, 1973
Rewe, 1991 (video- installation)
Video Trans Americas (V.T.A) Series
Video Trans Americas video-installation comprises videos recorded with a portapak during Downey’s travels from North to Central and South America between 1973 and 1976. The first complete screening of the V.T.A video-installation was in the exhibition Landscape Studies in Video curated by David Ross at the Long Beach Museum of Art in 1975. The V.T.A video-installation in subsequent exhibitions at other museum institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art (1976) was exhibited differently. This was largely due to the spatial component entailed in the presentation of the work, a key concern for Downey, as well as his own artistic liberty to make changes or integrate other components in the installation. Therefore, there are a number of different versions in the way the V.T.A video-installation was exhibited. The following videos are included in the installation (this may vary):
Rumbo al Golfo, 1973
Zapoteca, 1973
Yucatán, 1973
Guatemala, 1973
New York/Texas I & II, 1974
Lima/Machu Picchu, 1975
Cuzco I & II, 1976
Inca I & II, 1976
Uros I & II, 1975
Nazca I & II, 1976
La Frontera I & II, 1976
Additional videos that are part of the V.T.A series:
Moving, 1974
Publicness, 1974
Central Zone, 1975
Videodances, 1975
Inca Split, 1976
Bi-Deo, 1976
In the Beginning, 1976
Guahibos, 1976
Yanomami Healing I, 1977
Yanomami Healing II, 1977
The Circle of Fires, 1978 (video installation comes in 2 versions)
More Than Two, 1978 (installation)
The Abandoned Shabono, 1978
The Laughing Alligator, 1979
Chiloe, 1981
Chicago Boys, 1982–83
About Cages, 1986 (installation)
The Motherland, 1986
The Return of the Motherland, 1989
The Thinking Eye Series
Las Meninas (Maids of Honor), 1975
Venus and Her Mirror, 1980 (video-installation)
The Looking Glass, 1981
Information Withheld, 1983
Shifters, 1984
Sinage, 1984 (video-installation)
Obelisk, 1985 (video-installation)
J.S. Bach, 1986
Bachdisc, 1988 (interactive video-disc)
Hard Times and Culture: Part One, Vienna fin-de-siecle, 1990
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