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Trailer for the Video Art Exhibition at Gallery Z on Atwells Avenue, launching Thursday night and running through Nov. 28.

As the Electron Movers, Rhode Island's earliest video artists, launch a retrospective of their work and that of the next generation on 13 video screens at Gallery Z tonight, it must be noted that their place in Providence history was secured by a 1978 art show largely comprising 2-D photos and prints of "private parts" of the body.

In 1978, as Rhode Island passed a tough new obscenity law aimed at Mafia businesses, Electron Movers and RISD student Les Wisner, as a senior project, mounted an international art exhibit called "Private Parts:"

"Private parts. Any size. Any medium. Any thing. Any one. Any private. Any part."

On its fourth day, Providence Police raided the show.

You can read the entire story and learn more about the video artists presenting tonight at the Subterranean Homepage News blog: Early R.I. video artists revisit 'Private Parts,' show new work tonight

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