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Series: New Television
Program: New Television
Date: 1990-01-01
Duration: 00:00:46
Subject: Landscape; Tourist travel
People: Darmek, Dennis
Copyright Holder: Dennis Darmek
Clip Description
"Hall's Crossing" refers to a place in the American West where natural rhythms collide with scenic cruisers and tour buses. "Hall's Crossing" is an electronic "see America," set in a place where natural vistas and cultural myths overlap, a place where the canyon meets the road.
Scenes of the Grand Canyon portray both the beauty of the area and its invasion by tourists. The tourists attempt to capture the imagery through the medium of photography. At one point a narrator, Dr. Giselda Benda, speaks a foreign language. The electronic and vocal score was composed by Meredith Monk.
The work was broadcast as a segment of episode 609 (1990), and episode 301 (1993), of "New Television."
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.
