GENERAL IDEA 1969-1994
Selected Video Exhibitions and Broadcasts
2020
Chez Madame Rosa, Festival de Films d'Artistes sur le Queer: The Blind Leading the Blind #5, La Traverse - Centre d'Art contemporain d'Alfortville, Alfortville, France
2013
The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Berlin, Germany
The image is a virus. Histories of Cinema 1980-1990s – Session 2. Parodies of the Subject, 1980s Television Proposals, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sophia, Madrid, Spain
Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, USA
2012-14
Vidéo vintage (touring exhibition organized by Centre Pompidou, Paris, France)
ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medietechnologie), Karlesruhe, Germany (2012-13);
Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon (2013);
Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2013);
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea (2013);
Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2014);
2012
Vidéo vintage, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2011-12
Momentarily Learning from Mega-Events, Makan, Amman, Jordan
Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA
2011
General Idea: Film and Videos, 1969-85 part ofQueer Cinema from the Collection: Today and Yesterday, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Swarm, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
Postmodernism: A video programme, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
ARGOS Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, Belgium
2010
Changing Channels: Kunst und Fernsehen 1963-1987 / Art and Television 1963-1987, MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig), Vienna, Austria
Are You Ready for TV?
MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain
CGAC (Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporánea),
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2005
General Idea, Filmwinter Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
General Idea, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2004
Toronto Xchange Club, Ocularis, Brooklyn, USA
2003
30 Jaar: Nederlandse Videokunst, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam
Eternal Network: Videos from the Western Front Archives 1973-2001, (touring exhibition):
The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada;
Video Pool, Winnpeg, Canada;
Vidéographe, Montréal, Canada
Art Star: Video Art Biennial, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2002
Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA
2000-2001
Video Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1998
Fragile Electrons: Celebrating Twenty Years of Collecting Video Art - Videotapes from the Art Metropole Collection, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
1997
Documenta X, Kassel, Germany
Video Plaza, Monte Video, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1994
General Idea, World Wide Video Center, Den Haag, The Netherlands
1993
The Sequel: Shut the Fuck Up, installation at 5e Semaine Internationale de Video, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Videotapes by General Idea, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
1992
General Idea, Taormina Arte Video, Taormina, Italy
1991
General Idea, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
1990
Shut the Fuck Up (Spanish Television broadcast), SPAIN
1989
Test Tube, Cornucopia, Shut the Fuck Up (Dutch Television broadcast), The Netherlands
Video as Television, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
General Idea Video Retrospective, Images '89 Festival, Toronto, Canada
1987
Japan 87 International Video Television Festival, SPIRAL, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany
1986
Video Viewpoints, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1985
General Idea Retrospective, International Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, Canada
Talking Back to the Media (festival), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Test Tube (television broadcast), Much Music, Toronto, Canada
1983-85
Second Link - Viewpoints on Video in the Eighties (touring exhibition):
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada;
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA;
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
A Space, Toronto, Canada;
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA;
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom;
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan;
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan;
Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan;
Education and Cultural City of Sapporo, Sapporo, Japan; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan;
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1982
Prime Time Video (television broadcast), Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
New Narratives for Livingroom Viewing, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
1981
Portopia International Video Festival (award-winner), Kobe, Japan
San Francisco Video Festival (broadcast), San Francisco, USA
Frontiers (broadcast), WNED-TV, Buffalo, USA
Video Video, Toronto Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
1980
Venice Biennale, Canadian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Test Tube, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1979
Colour Bar Lounge, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Video Weeks Essen, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
1978
In Video (touring exhibition), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada;
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
Another Dimension, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
High Profile (slowscan transmission between the CN Tower and Video Inn), Toronto and Vancouver, Canada
Video Open (cablecast), Calgary, Canada
Artists and the Media, Graz, Austria
Towards an Audience Vocabulary ( cablecast), Toronto, Canada
Open Line (slowscan transmission between cities), Toronto, New York, Memphis, San Francisco, Vancouver, Victoria, Canada and USA
1977
Pilot (television broadcast), OECA TV Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Xth Biennale des Jeunes, Musée d'art moderne, Paris, France
1976
Projects Video VIII, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Forum '76, Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada
Video International, Aarhus, DENMARK
Festival Calgary, Parachute Centre, Calgary, Canada
1975
Video Art (touring exhibition)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA;
Contemporary Art Centre, Cincinatti, USA;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA;
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA
1974
Project '74, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Videoscape, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1972
Light-On Documentation, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1971
Exposé A Video Device, (video installation), A Space, Toronto, Canada