Our Nixon review in MFJ
My review/essay on the film Our Nixon, by Penny Lane and Brian Frye, is just out in the latest issue of Millennium Film Journal, part II of the Since ’78 and Beyond anniversary issue. The essay addresses, in depth, Lane and Frye’s use of archival materials to retell the Nixon narrative, including their process of obtaining original super 8 footage and having it scanned at high resolution by Jeff Kreines and his Kinetta machine.
You can subscribe to MFJ and get the issue, watch Our Nixon on Netflix and read the essay à la PDF here.
Ballad of the Lost Photographer
I made a slide performance this weekend at saracrown’s exhibition and event in Chelsea. The slides are from a huge archive of work by, what I guess, is an entertainment photographer, working in NYC in the late 70s and early 80s. From Studio 54 to a hotel Star Trek convention; Chic, Parliament Funkadelic and Sister Sledge; Grace Jones performing with a tiger; rollerskating in the park; Liza Minelli’s wedding aftermath attended by Andy Warhol and Liz Taylor; a Shriner’s parade in Times Square, and Divine. The glory, glamour and excess of the late 70s in NYC is a bit melancholy-inducing to behold in these gentrified times.
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Karl Erickson, Tamar Ettun & The Moving Company (Tyler Patterson, Tina Wang, Lyndsey Eugene, Maia Karo, Adrian Galvin & Guest: Lisa Park), Kimberly Ruth, Rachel Stevens, Jody Wood and No Hope aka Hedonic Treadmill (Elisabeth Smolarz & Jan Wilker)
sarahcrown opens in Chelsea and presents an event of six-minute multi-media performances by Group 6.0 members exploring the temporal duality of eveything and nothing.
opening May 10, 2014
@SPAZIO 522
526 West 26th Street, Suite 522, Chelsea NYOPENING RECEPTION
May 10, 5 – 7 pm
(performances start at 5:30pm)BRUNCH
May 11, 12 – 6pm
(with special performance by Jody Wood at 2:30pm)EXHIBITION
May 10 – June 1 (by appointment only)The exhibition is part of West Chelsea Artists Open Studios.