Series: New Television
Program: New Television
Episode: 306 (1993)
Date: 1993-01-01
Subject: Body Image; Rilke, Rainer Maria; Breast - Cancer
Copyright Holder: WGBH Educational Foundation and Wexner Center for the Arts; B.F.I. Productions; Leslie Thornton and Ron Vawter

Clip Description
This episode of "New Television" features "Strange Space" by Leslie Thornton and Ron Vawter and "The Body Beautiful" by Ngozi Onwurah.

Strange Space "Strange Space" by Leslie Thornton and Ron Vawter weaves images and sounds from a sonogram with the poetry of Rainer Marie Rilke. Copyright: Leslie Thornton and Ron Vawter.

The Body Beautiful Ngozi Onwurah's "The Body Beautiful" is an autobiographical work that deals with body image and the relationship between mothers and daughters. Copyright: B.F.I. Productions.

Program Description
This episode of "New Television" features "Strange Space" by Leslie Thornton and Ron Vawter and "The Body Beautiful" by Ngozi Onwurah.

Strange Space "Strange Space" by Leslie Thornton and Ron Vawter weaves images and sounds from a sonogram with the poetry of Rainer Marie Rilke. Copyright: Leslie Thornton and Ron Vawter.

The Body Beautiful Ngozi Onwurah's "The Body Beautiful" is an autobiographical work that deals with body image and the relationship between mothers and daughters. Copyright: B.F.I. Productions.

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/New413.HTML