CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6884
Partner Institution:
Concordia University
Source Collection Label:
Lee Gotham collection
Series:
Lee Gotham collection
Sub Series:
Lee Gotham collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Enough Said, Highlights Part 2
Title Source:
Asset
Title Note:
Ephemera accompanying asset.
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Notes:
Rights status in process. We may wish to seek permission from individual artists and Drew Duncan, the videographer.
CREATORS
Name:
Gotham, Lee
Dates:
1962-
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Duncan, Drew
Notes:
Videographer.
Name:
Ferrier, Trevor John
Name:
Backo, Njacko
Dates:
1958-
Notes:
There is a redundant VIAF entry for the same person: https://viaf.org/viaf/3790168740912279530004
Name:
Groupe de Poésie Moderne
Name:
Skarstedt, Sonja A.
Dates:
1960-2009
Name:
Suderman, Lynn
Name:
Phineas Flower Trio
Name:
Godin, S. (Steve)
Dates:
1956-
Name:
Karasick, Adeena
Dates:
1965-
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Video
Material Designation:
VHS
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Storage Capacity:
120 minutes
Playback Mode:
Mono
Tape Brand:
FUJI HQ T-120 (NFL branded)
Sound Quality:
Good
Other Physical Description:
VHS #Highlights_2 asset.
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Duration:
03:24:34
Size:
5.78 GB on disk
Bitrate:
2304Kbps (original); 256Kbps (master)
Encoding:
MPEG-4 movie
Content:
This is file 1 of 1 containing highlights from the Enough Said series, selected by Lee Gotham.
Notes:
Dimensions: 640 × 480.
Content Type:
Video Recording
Dates
Date:
1996
Type:
Production Date
Source:
Asset
LOCATION
Address:
4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada
Venue:
Bistro 4
Latitude:
45.5169628
Longitude:
-73.5796147
Notes:
Bistro 4 (pronounced Bistro Quatre), no longer in existence.
CONTENT
Contents:
The tape includes excerpts from four different events: (1) Enough Said 1995-02-20, Backo and Groupe de Poésie Moderne; (2) Enough Said 1995-02-27, Skarstedt and Suderman; (3) Enough Said 1995-03-06, Phineas Flower Trio and Godin; (4) Enough Said 1995-03-13, Karasick.
[Bistro 4]
00:00:14
Video Description: Colour video, different degrees of closeup of the stage at Bistro 4 (Quatre) (4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada). A single mic stand. The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles regularly passing by. The windows from across the street are also visible, including an outdoor “JETHRO” sign. People frequently pass in front of the camera. On the café windows, some decals are partially visible, with words from the menu such as “DÉJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”
Trevor Ferrier
00:00:15
[Drums while telling a story in English, opening with the line “Some have seen it and wish they hadn’t.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Trevor Ferrier entering the stage and picking up his percussion instrument from the floor. Different degrees of closeup as Ferrier tells a story while playing percussion.
Trevor Ferrier
00:16:03
[Plays the sanza while telling another story in English, opening with the line “Once on the far side of yesterday there lived a little girl who wanted to know the future.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Trevor Ferrier picking up the sanza. Different degrees of closeup as Ferrier tells a story while playing the sanza. At some point the camera zooms into an extreme closeup of his hands playing.
Lee Gotham
00:35:10
[Thanks Trevor Ferrier and announces a break.] | Video Description: Lee Gotham walks to stage and makes remarks.
Lee Gotham
00:39:44
[Cut to Lee Gotham introducing Njacko Backo.] | Video Description: Medium long shot from the other side of the stage, now capturing the performers slightly from a diagonal left.
Njacko Backo
00:35:28
[Salutes the audience in French and tells a story titled “Macaco.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Njacko Backo entering the stage. Backo has a dark sweater, neck-length braided hair, large beaded necklace. As Backo tells a story, the camera alternates among different degrees of closeup and pans from side to side to accompany Backo on stage. At some point, Backo balances a percussion instrument (the same one Ferrier drummed) on his head, acting out part of the story. Backo incorporates call-and-responses and a choruses with the audience into the storytelling.
Lee Gotham
00:48:36
[Applause.] | Video Description: Zoom to a medium closeup as Lee Gotham walks on stage, clapping and smoking.
[Unknown]
00:48:42
[Static.] | Video Description: Black screen.
Groupe de Poésie Moderne
00:48:46
[The Groupe performs a spoken-word piece, alternating solos with choruses. Audience laughter as a group member repeats the line “Ce soir.” Applause.] | Video Description: Cut to medium shot of the Groupe de Poésie Moderne. All wear black shirts and pants. Six members of the group stand in a circular formation, all facing the stage, with the centre apparently empty. As the group performs, the camera zooms in and out of various degrees of closeup. At some point, a seventh performer emerges from the centre of the group formation, going up and down several times. Later on, the group briefly breaks the formation, acting out an argument.
Groupe de Poésie Moderne
00:55:20
[The Groupe performs a second spoken-word piece, opening with the line “Bonsoir, nous sommes le Groupe de Poésie Moderne!” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of the Groupe de Poésie Moderne. The seven group members now stand in a loose row, all facing the stage. Save by one performer, who reads, all members perform from memory. Zoom in and out of various degrees of closeup.
Groupe de Poésie Moderne
01:01:18
[The Groupe performs a third piece, opening with the line “Bonjour, ma très belle, je suis inquiet pour toi.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of the Groupe de Poésie Moderne performing. The piece opens with only two members dialoguing and facing the audience, while the others stand on either side of the duo, with their backs to the camera. A third member turns to the audience and stands in front of the duo, addressing the audience. At the end, all other members turn to salute the audience, amid applause.
Lee Gotham
01:03:38
[Thanks the Groupe de Poésie Moderne. Announces an open mic (not part of this recording), as well as upcoming events.] | Video Description: Medium long shot then closeup as Lee Gotham thanks the performers and makes announcements.
[Unknown]
01:03:50
[Static.] | Video Description: Black screen.
Sonja J. Skarstedt
01:03:58
[Cuts to Skarstedt reading the short story “Heaven and Hell” (later published as part of the play “Saint Francis of Esplanade,” Empyreal Press, 2001).] | Video Description: Medium closeup, then zoom in and out, oscillating between extreme closeup and medium shot. Lee Gotham adjusts the mic as Sonja Skarstedt walks onto the stage. Skarstedt has blond hair with a mullet haircut, dangle earrings, sweater with an eight-point-star pattern. Skarstedt reads from a manuscript.
Sonja Skarstedt
00:18:58
[Exclaims “Poor Lord!” and the audience laughs.] | Video Description: Medium closeup. Sonja Skarstedt reads.
Sonja Skarstedt
00:19:02
[Resumes reading of “Heaven and Hell” after audience laughter. Applause.] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup and closeup. Skarstedt continues reading. At the end, walks off stage amid applause as the camera zooms out to a medium long shot.
[Unknown]
01:36:57
[Static.] | Video Description: Black screen and static.
Lee Gotham
01:37:05
[Ambient sounds, voices.] | Video description: Medium shot of Gotham adjusting the mic and standing in front of the camera.
Lynn Suderman
01:37:15
My friend Mary brought me a Bible for this [Laughter]. [Tells a story about her first tattoo and people asking the same two questions about it: does it hurt, and is it permanent? Then presents these questions as a motto for our times, applicable to government budgets, haircuts, and wakes.] So, this is my wake, for February and for the fact that I quit smoking and February is the worst month to quit smoking and I’m not doing very well. | Video Description: Medium shot as Lee Gotham leaves and Lynn Suderman walks onto the stage. Short black hair tucked behind ears and black long-sleeved blouse. Suderman drinks from a glass and holds a Bible and a pack of pages. After setting the glass down, tells a story, brandishes the Bible and settles it down to read.
Lynn Suderman
01:38:43
[Reads “Wake up,” beginning with the line, “I went on a long drive one summer’s day.” Occasional unscripted interruptions to interact with the audience. Frequent bursts of laughter.] | Video Description: Alternating closeup and medium closeup. Lynn Suderman reads and interacts with the audience.
Lynn Suderman
01:46:04
[Interrupts the reading to ask her friend Mary to help search for a Bible passage. Starts reciting from memory when Mary finds the passage] | Video Description: Closeup then medium closeup of Lynn Suderman on stage. Suderman interrupts the reading and walks to the audience to ask her friend to search for a Bible passage.]
Lynn Suderman
01:46:25
[Continues performing “Wake Up.” Friend hands her the bible. Suderman reads from the bible and her pages. Makes one more unscripted interruption, causing a burst of laughter among the audience. Applause] | Video Description: Alternating medium and extreme closeups. Lynn Suderman reads. Zoom out to a medium shot as Suderman leaves the stage.
[Unknown]
01:47:29
[Static.] | Video Description: Black screen with a running timestamp on the bottom left corner and static.
Lee Gotham
01:47:37
[Cuts to Gotham introducing the Phineas Flower Trio.] | Video Description: Closeup of Gotham speaking into the mic. Gotham wears a Taqiyah-style skullcap, and long button-down shirt on top of a t-shirt.
Phineas Flower Trio
01:47:44
[Voice interrupts Gotham from out of the frame] Just get on with it, man! | Video Description: Zoom out from Lee Gotham and pan left to the Phineas Flower Trio.
Lee Gotham
01:47:45
I believe want you to keep your distance during their act, they want lots of space, so just stay where you are [laughter]. A little later in the evening we will have Steve Godin. Steve Godin is going to do something that will set everyone’s teeth on edge [laughter]. It’s not true; Steve is a wonderfully amenable type and he’s gonna be here with us before very long. And in the meantime please welcome Phineas Flower. Stay where you are. [Applause]. | Medium long shot panning between Lee Gotham, standing, and the Phineas Flower Trio, sitting, one of them smoking. Gotham finishes his remarks and introduces the Phineas Flower Trio.
Phineas Flower Trio
01:48:25
[Drummer interrupts the applause] No clapping, we are serious jazz musicians. [Laughter] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Lee Gotham leaving the stage and the Phineas Flower Trio walking to their instruments and places. Before sitting by the drums, the drummer goes to the mic. The drummer has a buzz-cut hair and a long green open coat over a black turtle neck. The camera zooms into a closeup of the mic, and the guitar player gets his instrument caught on the mic cable, almost knocking the stand down.
Phineas Flower Trio
01:48:51
[The band spends an unnecessarily long time tuning and making adjustments, seemingly to irritate the audience.] | Video Description: Zoom out to a medium long shot of the stage, panning left and right, showing the Phineas Flower Trio: the drummer on right of the screen, further to the back, behind the mic stand; the guitar player in the middle, putting his lit cigar on his guitar head, among the tuning keys; and the bass player on the left, smoking. The guitar player wears short hair, thin moustache and goatee, and a grey Henley shirt with rolled-up sleeves; the bass player wears long hair, Van-Dyke beard, sunglasses, a black and red coat over a patterned button-down shirt.
Phineas Flower Trio and Audience
01:50:01
[A voice from the audience says, “Let’s go, eh?!”; two band members reply aggressively, “Back off!” “What the fuck was that? Why don’t you shut up?!”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of the stage, panning left and right, showing the Phineas Flower Trio.
Phineas Flower Trio
01:51:17
[A vocalist joins the Phineas Flower Trio to plays their first song, a spoken-word piece against a jazzy groove. One one of the first lines is “(Dereliction?) and (pain?), corrupted by ambient (rain?).” At the end of the first piece, the vocalist says, “Thank you very much, we are the Phineas Flower Trio.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of vocalist leaving the audience to join the Phineas Flower Trio, sitting on a bar stool, higher than the other band members. The vocalist wears short curly hair, sunglasses, and a grey sweater over a flowery dress. He is smoking and carrying a beverage. The camera zooms in and out, settling on a medium shot of the vocalist, with the drummer partially visible behind, the latter playing while smoking. The vocalist takes a sip, then puts both glass and cigarette down to perform.
Phineas Flower Trio
01:53:37
[Performs a second spoken-word-jazz fusion piece, beginning with the line “(Motorway?) superhighway, a massive feat of evolution in engineering.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup alternating with a medium long shot of the Phineas Flower Trio performing.
Phineas Flower Trio
01:57:05
[Performs a third spoken-word-jazz piece. One of the first lines is “Richard Carlyle (?) among the wreckage.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup panning among the band members of Phineas Flower Trio, who perform another piece. At the end of the piece, medium long shot of the guitarist and vocalist, with the drummer partially visible; the vocalist smokes between songs.
Phineas Flower Trio and Audience
01:58:06
[The vocalist shouts] Hey! [Someone from the audience responds, half-mockingly] No clapping. [The vocalist adds] We’re serious fucking jazz musicians up here. [Someone else from the audience protests] I didn’t fucking clap. [The vocalist responds and asks a question to the bass player] Good. What’s next, (Zanny?)?] | Video Description: Medium long shot of the guitarist and vocalist, with the drummer partially visible; then pan left to the bass player.
Phineas Flower Trio
01:58:22
[The bass player states the title of the next piece, which is incomprehensible, then the band performs it. One of the first lines is “As the last drops of (glucose?) (?) (Cola?) go down his throat.”] | Video Description: Medium long shot of the Phineas Flower Trio, panning left and right among the band members. Zoom into a closeup of the vocalist, who drinks from a glass before the next song; then zoom out to a medium shot as the band performs, ending in a medium closeup.
Phineas Flower Trio
00:15:45
[The Phineas Flower Trio performs a piece beginning, “Somewhere, somewhere higher than the sky.” At the end of the piece, the vocalist repeats what he said at the end of the first song, “Thank you very much, we are the Phineas Flower Trio.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup of the vocalist, as the band performs. At the end of the piece, the vocalist drinks from a glass.
Phineas Flower Trio and Audience
02:01:57
[Right after thanking the audience, the vocalist adds, looking at the band] That sucked. [Someone from the audience asks] What kind of noise is this? [The vocalist responds] Bad noise! [The drummer interjects] Wait, man, I don’t like this dialogue going on. Can’t anyone straighten this young lady out? [Vocalist states] Let’s play the next song. [Guitar player asks] Ok, who’s the fucking pinhead who said that? [Vocalist asks the bass player] Yo (Zanny?), what’s the next song? [As the bass player starts to answer, the guitarist commands, aggressively] Pinheads, raise your fucking head. [Drummer, out of the frame] Get ’em, boy! [Vocalist] Alright, let’s play the song. [Guitarist] You’re lucky I’m in a good mood. | Video Description: Medium shot, panning left and right, of the band members interacting with each other and with the audience.
Phineas Flower Trio
02:02:26
[The Phineas Flower Trio performs a piece, opening with a looping drum-bass riff. The vocalist burps into the mic before singing the first lines: “(You’re usually?) flapping its wings, a bee flies across the field (and fell?) searching frantically for food, gasping for breath.” Mid-performance, the drummer screams in the background. At the end of the piece, with the instrumentalists still playing, he vocalist repeats, “Thank you very much, we are the Phineas Flower Trio.”] | Video Description: Medium shot of the band, with the vocalist unbuttoning and taking off his sweater, so now his flower dress is entirely visible. Then zoom into a closeup of the vocalist as he starts singing while holding a cigarette, sometimes smoking between lines. Mid-performance, the camera zooms out and alternates between a medium shot and medium long shot.
Phineas Flower Trio and Audience
02:05:50
[Right after thanking the audience, the vocalist adds, looking at the band] Next. [Someone from the audience interjects] Don’t say thank you, we’re a serious fucking audience. [Vocalist] Alright! [Guitar player adds, pointing at the audience] You’re a really fucking funny guy, man. [Vocalist] Let’s go, next song! [Scattered laughter and incomprehensible heckling between band and audience] | Video Description: Medium shot, panning left and right, of the band members interacting with each other and with the audience.
Phineas Flower Trio and Audience
02:06:26
[Vocalist, with the guitarist interrupting the last word with a loud chord] In case you didn’t notice, this is an artistic (event?). [An audience member] If you didn’t (pack your lip?) it would be better. [Vocalist] Go for it. [Guitarist, out of the frame] Better than what? | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist interacting with the band members and the audience.
Phineas Flower Trio
02:06:39
The Phineas Flower Trio performs a piece, opening with a looping guitar riff, then a sudden pause, when the vocalist says “Hey.”] | Video Description: Zoom into an extreme closeup of the vocalist, smoking, then performing.
Phineas Flower Trio
02:08:17
[The band suddenly stops playing, and the drummer says to the guitarist, both out of the frame] Hey man, it’s you. [Guitarist] No, it’s you. [Drummer] You fucked up twice there. [Vocalist, trying to intervene] Let’s take it, let’s just take it… [Guitarist] (?) you have, like, no sense of time (?). [Laughter, while the argument continues, until the vocalist commands] Play! | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist, drinking from a glass and trying to resume the performance while the band argues.
Phineas Flower Trio
02:08:43
[The band resumes playing the same piece]. | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist, often sipping from a glass, while the band performs. Towards the end of the piece, the camera zooms out to a medium long shot, so the drummer and guitarist also become visible.
Phineas Flower Trio
02:09:30
[Bassist states the name of the next song] Next song is “Disgusting family.” [Vocalist announces] Alright, this is our last piece and then you will be rid of us once and for all. You can clap for that if you want! [Laughter] [Drummer] Disgusting family? [Vocalist] Wow, I don’t know, if Zanny’s standing up for this one, gotta mean something. [Laughter, shouts] [Vocalist] Zanny’s a studio musician, does a lot of uppers and stuff. | Video Description: Medium long shot, panning left and right between the bassist and vocalist, then zoom unto an extreme closeup of the vocalist. The bassist stands up and the camera pans left to show him. As the band starts performing, the camera pans back right and zooms into a medium closeup of the vocalist.
Phineas Flower Trio
02:13:00
[Vocalist interrupting the song to address the guitarist] Yo Kevin? Kevin? What the fuck is this? It’s just such fucking shitty noise (which you just made with that?) guitar, man. How much talent does it take to stick a fucking patch cord into a guitar anyway? [Many talk at once and the argument continues until the Vocalist suggests] Or just keep doing what you’re doing. Alright, here we go, it’s your noise! | Video Description: Closeup of the vocalist interrupting the piece to complain about the guitarist. The camera pans to the drummer and the guitarist then back to the vocalist.
Phineas Flower Trio
01:47:41
[The band resumes playing the same piece, and the vocalists speaks the last lines while the band is still playing]. Thanks for nothing. We’re the Phineas Flower Bar Mitzvah Quartet. We play weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, birthday parties. T-shirts and CDs are available at the door. [Applause] | Video Description: Closeup and extreme closeup of the vocalist, while the band performs. Towards the end of the piece, the camera zooms out to a medium long shot and pans left and right, so the other band members become visible as they stand up and leave the stage.
[Unknown]
02:15:08
[Static.] | Video Description: Black screen.
Steve Godin
02:15:16
[Cut to Godin reading piece beginning with the phrase, “For some time I was pondering theoretically on a compromise revolving around the ritual existence of…” The text refers to Antonin Artaud, William S. Burroughs, and Gérard de Nerval, among others. One minute into the reading, a distorted slow-moving instrumental music becomes audible in the background and gradually increases in volume.] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup and closeup of Steve Godin seating, reading while holding the mic. Godin wears shoulder-length grey hair and a black leather jacket.
Steve Godin
02:22:22
But where is the guide? [After the question, Godin sighs into the mic, observing a pause of about 20 seconds during which we hear the background music and ambient noises.] | Video Description: Camera zooms out to a medium shot, as Godin continues to perform.
Steve Godin
02:22:45
[Resumes reading with an increased reverb effect on the voice. The instrumental background music, now louder, approaches the volume of Godin’s voice.] | Video Description: Alternating medium shot and closeup, as Godin continues to perform.
Steve Godin
02:27:30
[Pauses. The background music also stops for a few seconds, before resuming, developing different looping patterns. Applause.] | Video Description: Alternating medium closeup, medium shot, and closeup, as Godin continues to perform. Camera zooms out to a medium long shot, as Godin stands up to leave the stage, amid applause, and hands the mic to Lee Gotham.
[Unknown]
02:34:14
[Static.] | Video Description: Black screen.
Lee Gotham
02:34:15
[Cuts to Gotham introducing Adeena Karasick. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup of Gotham speaking into the mic. Gotham wears a yellow long-sleeved shirt and a matching yellow bandana tied around head. Gotham adjusts the mic.
Adeena Karasick
02:34:34
[Performs a piece beginning with chanting and followed by the line “Once, upon, I came to you when I could not be integrated” Applause.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeups as Karasick performs a piece. Karasick wears a black zippered vest atop a black long-sleeved shirt, gold dangling earrings, and shoulder length black hair that is loose and slightly curled.
Adeena Karasick
02:26:30
[Thanks the audience. Explains that she will be reading pieces from multiple works, and that some relationships are only good for two things; “a poem at the beginning, and a poem at the end.” Laughter. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Incidentally accidental, it was an accident.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Varying degrees of closeups as Karasick introduces the piece, until maintaining a medium closeup while Karasick performs.
Adeena Karasick
02:40:24
[Explains the Poetry Express project in Toronto, in which poets performed on a bus. Performs a piece beginning with the line “Keep your eyes on the road.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick flips through papers on a blue box atop a trolley cart, which also holds an almost full glass beer bottle. Medium closeup as Karasick performs a piece.
Adeena Karasick
02:43:00
[Introduces and performs an excerpt of a longer work called Archetorture (Wave7Press, 1990) that, Karasick explains, explores memory and her mother’s death. Applause.] | Video Description: Flips through papers on trolley. Sips beer. Flips through papers again. Medium closeup as Karasick performs a piece.
Adeena Karasick
02:48:30
[Tells story about travelling in Germany. Performs a piece beginning with chanting and followed by the line, “And I go in to take the (?) to Meine, to Meine,” which contains both English and German. Karasick interrupts the poem to explain how food vocabulary is often the first words picked up in a new language, and then continues performing. Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Sips beer. Shows audience an illustration in one of her collections (cover unidentifiable.) Performs a piece. The camera maintains a medium closeup. Closes books, sips beer, and it overflows with foam. Exits the stage and the frame.
[Unknown]
02:54:44
[Static.] | Video Description: Black screen and static.
Adeena Karasick and Lee Gotham
02:54:50
[Ambient sounds, voices.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick and Gotham have an inaudible conversation.
Adeena Karasick
02:55:19
[Performs a piece beginning with chanting and followed by the line “When the word is bound (?)” Applause.] | Video Description: Reorganizes papers on trolley. Asks Gotham for something indiscernible with gesturing. Medium shot and extreme closeup as Karasick performs a piece.
Adeena Karasick
02:56:36
[Performs a piece titled “Autobahn Cruise” (Mêmewars, Talonbooks, 1994). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece.
Adeena Karasick
02:59:20
[Performs a chanting piece that includes the line “just a little bit harder” from an unknown project called Squalor. Pauses performance. Says, “I’ve lost my page.” Recommences. Laughter throughout. Applause]. | Video Description: Medium closeups and medium shots as Karasick performs a piece. Partway through, looks through folders of papers on the trolley to find another page. Recommences.
Lee Gotham
03:03:30
Video Description: Readjusts the microphone that has begun to tilt downwards.
Adeena Karasick
03:03:47
[Introduces and performs a piece called “Parasite Maintenance.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shots and extreme closeups as Karasick reorganizes papers on trolley and performs a piece.
Adeena Karasick
03:08:53
[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Aghast” (The Empress Has No Closure, Talonbooks, 1992). Shortly after starting to perform, briefly pauses and laughs. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece, pausing briefly to laugh near the beginning.
Adeena Karasick
03:08:52
[Introduces and performs a chanting piece beginning with the line “can’t get enough serotonin.” Applause.] | Video Description: Reorganizes papers on trolley. Medium shot as Karasick performs a piece. Gathers papers and water glass and leaves the stage.
Lee Gotham
01:03:32
[Encourages the audience to ask for an encore. Applause.] | Video Description: Gotham speaks briefly into the mic and claps.
[Unknown]
03:13:38
[Static.] | Video Description: Black screen and static.
Adeena Karasick
03:13:44
[Explains that “things are more uptight in Toronto.” Audience laughs at something unknown, Karasick asks, “what?” Performs a chanting piece beginning with the line, “Ululate pullulations, exhorting (Mortimer?) writhed in (bendable?) straddles.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Karasick introduces and performs a piece.
[Unknown]
03:16:29
[Static.] | Video Description: Black screen and static.
Lee Gotham
03:16:35
[Ambient noise and applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot of Gotham leaving the stage.
David J.
03:16:36
[Introduces and performs a piece called “Words.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups as David J. performs a piece. David J. wears a light brown striped button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbow, dark brown hair falling onto forehead in strands.
David J.
03:18:25
[Asks the audience if they want to hear an angry poem. Cheering. Introduces and performs a piece called “Smoke Eat Drive.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeups as David J. performs a piece. Applause and cheering throughout.
David J.
03:19:48
[Introduces and performs a piece called “Missing.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeups and medium shots as David J. performs a piece.
David J.
01:26:45
[Looks through papers. Mumbles. Introduces and performs a piece called “Dream Chicken.” Applause.] | Video Description: Looks through papers. Loose and regular closeups as David J. introduces and performs a piece.
[Unknown]
03:23:02
[Static.] | Video Description: Black screen and static.
Clifton Joseph
03:23:12
[Cuts to Joseph performing an unknown piece. Audience clapping along with Joseph.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Joseph performing a piece, gesturing and stomping his foot in rhythm. Joseph wears a brown button-up vest atop a light green short-sleeved shirt, black-framed glasses, and short black hair.
Anne Diamond
03:23:42
[Cuts to Anne Diamond performing a piece titled "Shoe Salesman."] | Video Description: Medium shot of Anne Diamond performing a piece. Diamond wears pixie-cut blond hair with bangs and a jean jacket over a grey cowl-neck sweater.
Clifton Joseph
03:23:45
[Cuts to Joseph performing the same unknown piece. Audience clapping along with Joseph.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Joseph performing a piece, gesturing and stomping his foot in rhythm.
[Unknown]
03:24:01
[Static.] | Video Description: Black screen and static.
Notes:
Event recording starts at 00:00:00:00 of VHS #Highlights_2 Asset.
NOTES
Type:
Cataloguer
Note:
Carlos A. Pittella
Type:
General
Note:
VHS #Highlights_2 asset. The asset was digitized, generating both uncompressed and compressed video files. Metadata based on the compressed file.
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