Biography

Nancy Buchanan has been working in video since the early 1970s, a halcyon period marked by the development of video as a medium informed by performance and formalist computer animation; and by social documentarians and studio-bound artists who were looking for life outside the commodity gallery. her particular strength has bee the consistent exploration of the spaces between political essay, poetry, and performance thereby calling attention to the easily ignored, marginalized and all encompassing ethical issues—the lapses between recognition and action, complacency and terror—made manifest (or more often ignored) by mainstream media. It is this media which has served well as a target for Buchanan's strategy of black humor and political critique.

 —Erika Suderburg.

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