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  • G.P. Skratz and Linda Lemon

    Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)

    What happens when a poet (G.P. SKRATZ) and a printmaker (LINDA LEMON) spend a year or more making videotapes? The results of this collaboration were shown in the University Art Museum’s Sunday video program. Skratz and Lemon make tapes about words, and poems, and manifestoes, and political flip-flops, and they include just enough action that you don’t realize until later that the unifying thread was words. They do it without becoming literary and precious, and they do it in a way that, in general, is entertaining.

    Self Portrait, An Art TV Magazine, of which there are two issues so far, consists

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