David Askevold Trailers
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David Askevold was an experimental American-Canadian artist who lived in Nova Scotia. Askevold studied art and anthropology at the University of Montana. In 1963, he won a Max Beckmann Scholarship to study painting for a year at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York. In 1966, he enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute to complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, in Sculpture. Askevold went to Halifax and joined the faculty of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1968.
Most Popular David Askevold Trailers
Total trailers found: 24
01 January 2003
This piece is about placing two major recording artists on the same stage together after they have been dead for some time.
01 January 1986
A classically trained musician learns the lyrics and tune, live on tape, of the Hank Williams' song, "Honky Tonkin", prompted and coached by a friend over a period of time until she gets it right.
01 January 1970
"A disk of wax soaked with lighter fluid is placed on one end of the balanced plywood. I run toward and Jump on the other end, catapulting the wax over my head in hopes of striking a strip of toilet paper, lighting and burning it.
01 January 1995
Four channel video taped in the summer of 1995 along British Columbia's Fraser River.
01 January 1994
"Don't Eat Crow", a somewhat situational piece, consists of an audio narration by Katherine Grevatt, an unpublished novelist who lives along the South Shore of Nova Scotia.
01 January 1969
"The static camera is placed in a room lit by an overhead controlled lighting system. Two flashlights are strapped to my ankles and the other to one wrist.
01 January 1995
Documentation of an exhibition at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, Canada, 1993-1995.
01 January 1974
"it continued to rain all day for some reason people started to talk about Delaware no one knew anything about it no one had been there or knew anyone from there.
01 January 1986
A musician plays a violin to a black dog, a white horse, a sheep, lamb and chickens in a barn yard while it is raining at a small farm yard in Clam Harbour, Nova Scotia.
01 January 1989
This composition is about the hollowness of material wealth, the poverty of alienation and the different forms they take.
01 January 2002
"The preparation for this video was primarily psychological - to create an atmosphere of expectations of powerlessness to induce a frame of mind resulting in the appearance of a drug induced state.
01 January 1985
"This tape is comprised of a sensual drift of images which allude to or trace evidence of psychic energy that surfaces within the image.
01 January 1971
"I strike the first pair of tuning forks on the edge of a table, raise and point them close to the microphone for their audible duration.
01 January 1970
"Fill is my first video; the monitor becomes a picture-sound box. The screen is filled by laying sheets of aluminum foil on a microphone and wrapped one at a time and then unwrapped.
01 January 1990
Sixteen Candles is a recording of a constructed candle chandelier which is suspended by a cord, wound up and allowed to wind down for recording in continuous edited time.
01 January 1977
The room is dark and a recording of 14 tuning forks is playing in the room. The subject is asked to lie on a cot and relax.
01 January 1979
"The performer describes how to shrink a head, using an avocado and its pit that is recorded on one audio channel.
01 January 1972
The performer’s upside down frontal head fills the monitor, staring into the camera trying not to blink for the duration of a recording of Ray Charles’ “It’s No Use Crying”.
01 January 1987
A man who works for an "issues" related magazine comes to Herring Cove, N.S. to look at photographs by a female photographer for possible publication.
01 January 1972
"The performer is framed within the open window facing the camera one story above the street below. When a car, van or truck passes below, he asks, 'what color is that car?' An off-camera voice, Jack Wendler, the gallery owner, describes the vehicle while the performer bites into a chocolate and describes its characteristics until another one comes along.
01 January 1971
"Holding a rubber band between my thumbs and forefingers, I strum it as fast as I can close to the microphone.
01 January 1982
In Rhea (1982), Askevold elaborates on his interest in allusion and implication, using images that seem to be fragments of a larger narrative to suggest, rather than tell, a story.
31 December 1969
"Along the South Shore of Nova Scotia, I poured a mixture of gasoline and oil on various stone configurations and along some beaches, lit them and filmed the results.
