Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Roth, Beatrice, 1919-
2. Kondek, Christopher
3. Williams, Brooks.
4. Hartley, Jan.
5. Jackson, Homer.
6. Hemphill, Essex.
7. Yellow Springs Institute for Contemporary Studies and the Arts.

Found in

1. nnpc Yellow Springs Institute records (RLIN)NYPG05-A10085

Description

1. 5 videodiscs (NTSC) (259 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Old: new work combines live performance of text with video and recorded sound. Empty arms is a multi-media work including video, recorded sound and live performance, creating a series of vignettes that explore racial themes in the film Imitation of life. Empty arms consists of ten sections: I. Maid, matriarch or mammy; II. Panavision dreams; III. Witness: ABT; IV. Evidence: once; V. Soft targets; VI. Panavision dreams; VII. Witness: Mr. So and So; VIII. Evidence: two; IX. Panavision dreams; X. Spirits in the dark.

Series statement

1. Yellow Springs Institute Audio/Visual Collection

Alternative title

1. Old: new work.
2. Empty arms.

Subject

1. Performance art

Genre/Form

1. Video.

Contents

1. Disc 1. Old: new work / written and performed by Beatrice Roth (71 min.) -- Disc 2. Old: new work (60 min.) -- Disc 3. Empty arms / conceived and performed by Homer Jackson and Essex Hemphill (52 min.) -- Disc 4. Empty arms (58 min.) -- Disc 5. Empty arms [rehearsal] (18 min.)

Call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-1325

Note

1. Donor's inventory numbers: V2-910720-1 through V2-910720-5.

Credits (note)

1. Old: new work. Video design: Christopher Kondek. Sound design: Brooks Williams. Art director: Jan Hartley.
2. Empty arms. Audio materials excerpted from a 1973 interview with Barbara Ann Teer, from the Folkways album Black drama. Musical selections: Tender as a rose, performed by Abbie Lincoln; Let's build a rhythm, performed by Ella Jenkins; Nothing but the blues, performed by Lightning Hopkins.

Event (note)

1. Recorded at Yellow Springs Institute, Chester, Pa., on July 20, 1991.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Yellow Springs Institute records; for papers see the Billy Rose Theatre Collection, *T-Mss 2004-007.

Title

1. Interdisciplinary laboratory 1991 [videorecording].

Imprint

1. 1991.

Series

1. Yellow Springs Institute Audio/Visual Collection

Credits

1. Old: new work. Video design: Christopher Kondek. Sound design: Brooks Williams. Art director: Jan Hartley.
2. Empty arms. Audio materials excerpted from a 1973 interview with Barbara Ann Teer, from the Folkways album Black drama. Musical selections: Tender as a rose, performed by Abbie Lincoln; Let's build a rhythm, performed by Ella Jenkins; Nothing but the blues, performed by Lightning Hopkins.

Event

1. Recorded at Yellow Springs Institute, Chester, Pa., on July 20, 1991.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Yellow Springs Institute records; for papers see the Billy Rose Theatre Collection, *T-Mss 2004-007.

Local note

1. House program available through the Billy Rose Theatre Collection.

Added author

1. Roth, Beatrice, 1919- Performer
2. Kondek, Christopher, video designer.
3. Williams, Brooks. Designer
4. Hartley, Jan. Designer
5. Jackson, Homer. Performer
6. Hemphill, Essex. Performer
7. Yellow Springs Institute for Contemporary Studies and the Arts.

Added title

1. Old: new work.
2. Empty arms.

Found in:

1. nnpc Yellow Springs Institute records (RLIN)NYPG05-A10085

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-1325