Sound and Video Recordings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Leo Castelli Gallery
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content: Leo Castelli Gallery records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9.7 Linear Feet (Boxes 181-190, 232)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1959-2000
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.leocast, Series 11
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Video and sound recordings are arranged by form of material, with artwork and performance documentation first, followed by exhibition documentation, interviews, documentaries, and publicity. Within each group, items are arranged by artist or subject. Publicity videos are arranged by program title. Three unidentified videos in obsolete formats are filed at the end of the series.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Most of the sound and video recordings have been digitized for research access.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Series includes video art, sound art, performance art, exhibition-related media, interviews, documentaries, and publicity news clips related to the Leo Castelli gallery and the artists it represented. Grouped under artwork and performance are recordings of performances, sound art, video art, components of multi-media art, and other documentation of specific artworks. Artists include Vito Acconci, Robert Barry, Hannah Collins, Merce Cunningham, John Gibson, Laura Grisi, Richard Landry, Paul McMahon, Bruce Nauman, Hermann Nitsch, Ed Ruscha, Salvatore Scarpitta, John Sirica, Chas. B. Swann, Ned Sublette, and Lawrence Weiner. Recordings include both commercially-produced copies and rare or unique archival material, including 15 videocassettes (9 U-matic and 6 VHS), 6 sound cassettes, and 9 vinyl phonograph records.

Exhibition documentation includes recordings that document specific shows and openings on 6 videocassettes (5 VHS and 1 U-matic), and 2 lacquer phonograph records. Interviews include extended interviews with Leo Castelli and artists he represented, including, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenberg, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Thierren, and an appearance of Dan Flavin and Donald Judd at the Centre Pompidou. Interviews are on 14 videocassettes (8 VHS and 6 U-matic), 1 videocartridge (Catrivision), and 1 sound cassette. Documentaries include commercially distributed or broadcast television works, generally about a single artist or artwork or about Castelli himself, on 29 videocassettes (11 U-matic and 18 VHS). Publicity videos are generally news programs that include brief coverage of Castelli Gallery among other stories on 24 videocassettes (20 VHS and 4 U-matic). Unidentified recordings are found on 3 videocassettes (1 Betamax and 2 VHS) and 1 videocartridge (EAIJ Endless Loop).