Projekt '74
«Projekt '74: Text written for the video catalogue»

This tape is a condensed compilation showing some of the video activities that took place during the 'Project '74 – Aspects of International Art in the Early 1970s' exhibition in the Kunsthalle and Kölnischer Kunstverein in July/August of 1974 in Cologne. The exhibition was staged to mark the 150th anniversary of the Wallraff-Richartz-Museum.
Alongside the themes of Time, Perception, Logical Systems, Performance and Film, Video was an important part of the exhibition. In addition to six installations with video rooms and objects by Nam June Paik, Peter Campus, Dan Graham, Michael Hayden, Frank Gillette and Douglas Davis, videotapes made by 95 US and European artists, groups or institutions were shown.
A third exhibition section ran under the all-embracing title of 'Video Activities'. What this meant was that individual artists or groups, assisted by the team and equipment of the Lijnbaancentrum Rotterdam, were given an opportunity to realize their personal notions of the video medium by producing tapes, performances, video games, participatory works etc. in the course of the exhibition.
Wulf Herzogenrath

The video catalogue documents works and performances by Vito Acconci, Joan Jonas, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Ulrike Rosenbach, Valie Export, the VAM group, Heinz Breloh, Douglas Davis, Harald Ortlieb, Willoughby Sharp and Claus Böhmler.