"X" ©1973 John Sturgeon
M.o.M.A. Archive
John Sturgeon’s following early B&W, “reel to reel” - video masters - were loaned to The Museum of Modern Art, NYC in the fall of 1993 for their digital preservation program.
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Unfortunately, these reels were poorly labeled, &/or in some cases unmarked: without the name of the artist, or title of the work. After the museum’s digital preservation program was put on hold, these works were stored off-site. Though M.o.M.A.’s Film & Video Department searched for them, they were unable to locate them.
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Consequently, the artist considers these master videos to be “lost” even though they may be somewhere in museum’s storage as unlabeled, unidentifiable ½” video reels. Further complicating the retrieval of these works, the artist has no submasters or copies of them. Therefore, all these works have been completely missing from the artist’s personal archive since 1993.
John Sturgeon’s missing early B&W video works:
X ©1973, b&w, 11 mins. - (missing in M.o.M.A. archive)
DWELLING/OAR ©1973, b&w, 28 mins. (missing in M.o.M.A. archive)
VISITOR ©1971, b&w, 29 mins. (missing in M.o.M.A. archive)
VIDEO I ©1971, b&w, 30 mins. (missing in M.o.M.A. archive)
MoMA
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John Sturgeon
Exhibitions & commission at: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S / commissioned - I N S T A L L A T I O N
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1993 TRAP/bat, The Museum of Modern Art, Commission: multi-channel
interactive video sculptural installation, New York, NY
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1978 The Museum of Modern Art, solo exhibition -Video Projects, NYC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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1997 The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Selections from the Video Collection
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1990 Selections from the Video-Collection, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
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1985 The Museum of Modern Art, Spatial Relationships in Video, NYC
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1983 The Museum of Modern Art, Video Art: A History, New York, NY
The Second Link-Video in the 80's,
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;
Institute of Contemporary Art, London;
National Gallery of Ontario, Canada;
Museum of Modern Art, NYC;
Long Beach Museum of Art, LB;
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada)
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1983 The Museum of Modern Art, Performance Video, NYC
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1982 The Museum of Modern Art, Performance Video, NYC
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1980 Video: New York, Seattle, & Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
(Traveling: '80-'81, Japanese Museums)
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1979 The Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Sculpture Selections, NYC
M. o. M. A. P U B L I C A T I O N S
contributions to published books
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Still Moving, The Film and Media Collections of The Museum of Modern Art,
by Steven Higgins, Published M.o.M.A. © 2006, Chapter: The 1970s,
photo 2 Aspects, video by John Sturgeon ©1976, p. 274.
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M. o. M. A. V I D E O C O L L E C T I O N S
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SPINE/TIME ©1982, color, stereo, 20 mins.
2 ASPECTS ©1976, B&W, 4 mins.
CONJUNCT ©1976, B&W, 5 mins.
THE TWO OF TRIANGLES ©1975, B&W, 2:30 mins.
SHAPES FROM THE BONE CHANGE ©1975, B&W, 4:30 mins
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A R T I S T / L E C T U R E & V I E W I N G S
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1993 Video View Points, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1993 Conversations with Contemporary Artists, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1978 Video View Points, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY