An Evening of Performance Pieces, 1979, Memphis, Memphis College of Art project video documentation

An Evening of Performance Pieces, 1979, Memphis, Memphis College of Art project video documentation

This 14-minute video documentation of a performance event in 1979 is the earliest digitized video file in the Lynn Book Projects Archive. These short excerpts capture the spirit of “An Evening of Performance Pieces”, an ambitious and widely ranging set of 10 pieces co-created and co-produced by Book, Margo Adams and Katherine Mitchell (with whom Book would collaborate on robust projects in Memphis and Chicago). Mose Person was the videographer who used the black and white camera, half inch beta portapak system, Sony U-Matic deck that Book would begin experimenting with over the next year. This event consisted of 10 original performance pieces created by Book, Adams and Mitchell involving over 50 art students as performers and crew with involvement from faculty and community members. The setting was the architecturally significant Memphis Academy Art (Harrover and Mann, 1959), renamed the Memphis College of Art until closing in 2020. Over 250 people attended the event, moving throughout the building and its exterior balconies and walkways.

http://youtu.be/qSFmYgQIxbc

Lynn Book Projects
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2022-03-14T04:33:03Z

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