Tony talked about doing a performance of “film projection” at Antioch. He also said that his pickled films and cooked films were a response to being criticized by other makers at Antioch. Primarily for making work that wasn’t directly engaging with social justice issues. That film was expensive and to make work that didn’t directly address isssues like poverty was irresponsible.
So. In t0ny’s positively spiteful way he said “fine I’ll just use scraps of film and pickle them! That costs almost nothing!” It’s not a surprise that there isn’t a clear record as Antioch went through a lot of changes since then. This incidence along with the video activism/public access work, I think, shows a significant shift of tony’s work pre/during/post Antioch. This is glaringly absent from most of the scholarship about Tony’s work. -d.olivier On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 1:17 PM Jonathan Walley <wall...@denison.edu> wrote: > Hello Frameworkers, > > I have a question about Tony Conrad’s performance *7360 Sukiyaki*, which > I’m asking on behalf of another researcher. It’s a simple question, really, > but has become quite the little puzzle. > > The question is where the work was “premiered.” In an essay he wrote for > *MFJ* called “Is This Penny Ante or a High Stakes Game?”, Tony listed > three performance dates for the work: December 17, 1973, April 27, 1974, > and June 15, 1974. The latter two dates I have been able to nail down: The > Walker Art Center and the Millennium. That leaves the December 17, ’73 > date, apparently the premiere. My educated guess is that this took place at > Antioch, which Tony was teaching at the time (he left shortly after to > teach at Binghamton, then, of course, SUNY Buffalo). The researcher I’ve > been talking to has not been able to find anything about a performance at > Antioch (my guess is that it was a very low-key affair, possibly connected > with a class, as was *Film Feedback*); she is trying to eliminate > Anthology or any other NY venue as a possible site of the premiere. She’s > even contacted the archivist at Antioch and gotten more-or-less a > non-responsive response. > > Any ideas? I know it’s a lot of verbiage for what seems like a tiny > question, but since I’ve spent a few days figuring out the other dates and > sort of mapping Tony’s travels between 1972 and 1975, I’ve developed an > obsession with answering this question. Not that it would be the end of the > world if I didn’t (especially since it’s not even my research project). > > Related to this: I have not been able to determine when/where/by whom this > photo was taken: > https://yswriting.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/tony-conrad-critical-audiovisions/ > > I’m quite sure it’s not the Walker Art Center, but beyond that I’m > clueless. > > Thanks everyone! > JW > > Dr. Jonathan Walley > Associate Professor and Chair > Department of Cinema > Denison University > wall...@denison.edu > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > -- ___________________ _ _ _ __________________ d. olivier delrieu-schulze ______________________ sent by Commodore 64
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