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East Coast, West Coast (1969)

Directed by Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt

· 22m

East Coast, West Coast, Holt and Smithson's first collaborative experiment with video, takes the form of a humorous bi-coastal art dialogue. Joined by their friends Joan Jonas and Peter Campus, Holt and Smithson improvise a conversation based on opposing - and stereotypical - positions of East Coast and West Coast art of the late 1960s. Holt assumes the role of an intellectual conceptual artist from New York, while Smithson plays the laid back Californian driven by feelings and instinct. Their deadpan exchange ironically lays bare the limitations and contradictions of both sides in the debate.

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Crew

Director
Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt

Details

Release date
1969-01-01
Runtime
22m
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English