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Series: New Television
Program: New Television
Date: 1988-01-01
Duration: 00:01:21
Subject: Celebrities
People: Anderson, Mark; Darmek, Dennis
Copyright Holder: Dennis Darmek and Mark Anderson
Clip Description
Performance artist Mark Anderson and video artist Dennis Darmek have collaborated to celebrate the simple wonders of the all-American summertime sport of baseball. Anderson's wry commentary is delivered at the stadium that houses the Milwaukee Brewers, with the players and fans becoming part of the performance process.
Featured in the pickup game are people who just get together to play -- Yeats, Yoko Ono, Elvis, Elizabeth Dole, Lillian Hellman, T. S. Eliot, and other luminaries.
As Mark Anderson, who wrote the monologue he delivered, weaves in and out of batting practices and fan-filled bleachers, describing (with obsessive name-dropping) the fictional baseball game, he seems nearly oblivious to the actual game that surrounds him.
The work is approximately eight minutes in length and was broadcast as a segment of episode 504 (1989), and episode 108 (1991), of "New Television." Produced and directed by Dennis Darmek.
Series Description
The New Television Workshop originated at WGBH, a public broadcasting station in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1974 to support the creation and development of experimental video art. This experimental programming included dance, drama, music, performance and visual arts on video and film. As early as 1968, WGBH was committed to the development of video art through residency programs, with artists such as Nam June Paik, and the "Rockefeller Artists-in-Television" project. Many of these early works (pre-1974) were broadcast both locally and nationally.
As an umbrella for arts related programming, the Workshop included "Artist's Showcase, " "Frames of Reference, " "Dance for Camera, " "Poetry Breaks," and "New Television," as well as acquired arts programming. Individual works were created for "Visions," a series produced by WNET (New York), and "Alive From Off Center," a series produced by KTCA (St. Paul - Minneapolis). The Contemporary Art Television (CAT) Fund was co-founded by the Workshop and Boston's Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) in the 1980's, to commission works by video artists. In 1993 the Workshop ceased production at WGBH.
See also: http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/NTW/FA/TITLES/Big171.HTML
