Much as video artists have come to accept over the past few years their work’s implicit reference to television, performance artists are beginning to examine their medium’s relation to theater. In light of this, it is significant that a well-established video artist recently presented his first performance in the context of a theater workshop.

COLIN CAMPBELL, whose videotapes were included in this year’s Canadian representation at the Venice Biennale, has been working with video for ten years. In the past, his work has been labelled as divergently as “strictly narrative” and “post-conceptual