CD-ROM

 

VIDEO AND ACTION ART IN ESTONIA / CD-ROM

Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia 2001
Text Anders Härm
Layout Andrus Kõresaar, Killu Sukmit
Producer Produktsioonigrupp OÜ

The double CD-ROM, titled “Video and Action Art in Estonia”, can beviewed as a peculiar bipartite virtual art history. Both sections of this “digital book” are structured as hypertext and bear titles “Happening, performance and live art in Estonia 1966 – 2000” and “Video Art in Estonia. The Story of Medium of Interruption”. The Texts by contain video and photo links to the works discussed. The user can naturally just avoid the hyperTexts by and view the videos/documented video installations or recorded performances either by authors or groupings together with some essential facts about them, or all the works in alphabetical order. Though action art in Estonia can be observed as more or less continuous phenomenon for a period of almost forty years, this is not the case with video art, which came into being only in 1990. Therefore the structure of the two hyperTexts by is somewhat different. “Happening, performance and live art in Estonia 1966 – 2000” is chronologically arranged. “Video Art in Estonia. The Story of Medium of Interruption” does not contain a short overview of the origins and development of video art from the late 1980s till the middle of the next decade, but the core part is structured thematically, focusing on authors and their works (most dating from the second half of the 1990s until the year 2000).

CD-ROM contains information about Siim-Tanel Annus, Jaak Arro, Kadi Estland, Tiia Johannson, Anu Juurak, Kai Kaljo, Erki Kasemets, Raivo Kelomees, Ando Keskküla, Kiwa, Mari Kurismaa, Raoul Kurvitz, Andrus Kõresaar, Tarrvi Laamann, Mari Laanemets, Marko Laimre, Nongrata, Jüri Okas, Marko Raat, Rühm T, Ene-Liis Semper, Hanno Soans, Mari Sobolev, Soup ’69, Killu Sukmit, Tartu aktsionistid, Jaan Toomik, Mare Tralla, Trimadu, Taave Tuutma, Mart Viljus, Jasper Zoova.