Beryl Korot

Beryl Korot (17 September 1945, New York) is an American video artist, known for her multi-channel works. She studied English literature and art history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and then graduating from Queens College.

Beryl Korot is the Raindance member most consistently associated with the leadership of the magazine Radical Software. She first met Ira Schneider whilst studying English Literature at the University of Wisconsin, and they later collaborated together to produce Video Art: An Anthology (1976), a seminal publication documenting early video art history. Also a Guggen­heim fellow, Korot has been recognised for her multichanne works Dachau 1974 (1974) and Text and Commentary (1977), which are in the Kramlich and Thoma Art Collections and the MoMA NYC collection respectively. Her works, which brought video technology into conversation with the ancient hand loom, have been shown in venues including The Kitchen (1975), Documenta 6 (1977), the Whitney Museum (1980/ 2002), Tate Modern (2014) and SFMOMA (2016). She later collaborated with composer and husband Steve Reich to make The Cave (1993) and Three Tales (2002), the former of which was shown in the ZKM exhibition Medium Religion in 2008. (2017)

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• Video interview, ZKM, 2017, 20 min.