I taught summer session in Gerry O’Grady’s media program at SUNY Buffalo for two summers, 1974 & 1975, with Tony, Paul Sharits, Hollis Frampton, the Vasulkas and others. I saw Tony every day those two summers, and we talked a lot, at his home and elsewhere. He played violin for me one day; another day we were driving along what I think was the Niagara River, which flows northward toward Niagara Falls. My memory is of a wide, deep and powerful body of water moving very fast. You’d drown if you fell into it. Tony was talking loud over the noise of his van, on a roll with some thought vector he was on. Over the years, whenever I thought of Tony, I saw that image, and I still do: I conflate the contrarian yet exhilarating rush of that north-flowing mass of water, strangely quiet, with Tony himself.
> On Apr 10, 2016, at 12:19 AM, Pip Chodorov <[email protected]> wrote: > > I read the article this morning, Hoberman's obit of Tony Conrad. > > I knew he was very sick, and would not be getting better, it was getting hard > for him to walk, and the thought of cataloguing and preserving all the films, > tapes, costumes, objects and inventions in his house was beginning to weigh > on his friends. > > But now I see his name in the paper, it is final. To remember Tony, you can > listen to his last performance of the Dream Syndicate: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBi8GeV7IFI > > or watch him talk about his yellow movies: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uh-SF4Z7AI > > or read a recent article: > http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/22/people-thought-we-were-on-drugs-and-we-were-tony-conrad-the-great-avant-garde-adventurer > > or watch Marie Losier's brilliant film portrait: > https://www.realeyz.tv/en/tony-conrad-dreaminimalist.html > > All the ways in which Tony made us think or laugh, usually both, will live on > forever through his work and remembering moments of time spent together in > public or private. > > Re-member Tony! > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
