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The Videoheads Archive is our greatest pleasure and our greatest headache. It weighs several tons, it requires the proper functioning of several more tons of otherwise obsolete equipment to read it. It contains Artworks, music, programs about and by artists, movies of special interest to students, artists and researchers in many disciplines. There is material from around the world shot during UNESCO missions, philosophical interviews with Richard Alpert on his way to India, and with Baba Ram Dass (née Alpert) on his way back. Bhaktivedanta, Yogi Bajan, Mahari Ji, members of the KKK, Hell's Angels, lesbian nuns, along with more than a little of HH the Dalhai Lama (in Switzerland, India, France, Denmark and Holland)- all have their spot on the shelves of our archive. (Literally) tons of music, lots of Philip Glass, Pink Floyd, The Who and many you've never heard of. Partial List of Music Video Material As a free workshop for artists, we have accumulated master tapes, playing copies and elements for installations from more than three hundred artists and crazies ranging from a guy who plays the 'cello to change the colors on the wattles of a turkey to Salvador Dali in 3-D. Our close friendship with the beginnings of fashion video in Paris has left us with fashion shows, interviews and people from Grace Jones with BIG hair to J-P Gaultier in a cod piece surrounded by tattooed flesh. For forty years we have screened this material in our videocafés, video cinemas and our private screening rooms in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Belgrade as well as doing a lot of touring shows in '67, '68, and '69 kickstarting videoculture. The second headache (alongside the trundling around of tons of stuff) is keeping a continuously updated database and catalogue of our material. We only started this procedure in 1974 on index cards and moved into a computer in 1980. Our current catalogue printout only includes material in the collection as of October 1988!? It is definitely our intention to open a permanent Amsterdam screening space in addition to our new workspace as soon as possible (any suggestions?).
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