PUBLIC HEARING ANTHOLOGY
| REFERENCE NUMBER | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | YEAR | DURATION | COLOR / B&W | AUDIO | LINK TO REQUEST ACCESS |
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| OR.3 | Public Hearing Reel 1. Beginning of discussion. Jonas Mekas statement ans | Reel 1 of 4. West Village local gov public hearing in 1979, focusing on gov plans to rezone/sell/lease 13th st Food & Maritime Building. Four groups competing: Anthology, Caring Community, Mutual Aid Project, Montessori School. This reel includes intro to hearing, and Jonas Mekas (Anthology) opening statement (00:07:00), followed by questions from audience (to end). Notable figures in audience: Cage, Paik | 4/2/1979 | 00:33:19 | Black and White | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.4 | Public Hearing Reel 2. Three other statements, Montessori, Food conter, a | Reel 2 of 4. West Village local gov public hearing in 1979, focusing on gov plans to rezone/sell/lease 13th st Food & Maritime Building. Four groups competing: Anthology, Caring Community, Mutual Aid Project, Montessori School. This reel includes opening statement from Caring Community rep (00:00:35). Followed by opening statement from Mutual Aid Project rep (00:06:29). Followed by opening statement from Mentessori School rep (00:12:40). Followed by questions from audience for all reps (00:23:20 - end). | 4/2/1979 | 00:33:29 | Black and White | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.5 | Public Hearing Reel 3. Small statements most supporting Anthology | Reel 3 of 4. West Village local gov public hearing in 1979, focusing on gov plans to rezone/sell/lease 13th st Food & Maritime Building. Four groups competing: Anthology, Caring Community, Mutual Aid Project, Montessori School. Questions continue from reel 2. Followed by Larry Rivers statement (00:02:09). Followed by general statemets of support from audience for specific project (00:07:37). Ann Volkes statement (00:14:20). | 4/2/1979 | 00:33:19 | Black and White | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.6 | Public Hearing Reel 4. Small statements most supporting Anthology | Reel 4 of 4. West Village local gov public hearing in 1979, focusing on gov plans to rezone/sell/lease 13th st Food & Maritime Building. Four groups competing: Anthology, Caring Community, Mutual Aid Project, Montessori School. General statements of support from audience continues from reel 3. Closing comment from board (00:31:40). | 4/2/1979 | 00:33:13 | Black and White | Yes | VIEW |
NAM JUNE PAIK DOCUMENTARY
| REFERENCE NUMBER | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | YEAR | DURATION | COLOR / B&W | AUDIO | LINK TO REQUEST ACCESS |
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| OR.NJ | Nam June Paik "Blue Sky"* (Mis-labeled. Actual footage: Unkown) | Unknown event in an audiorium. Video starts with the recording of a "telephone" game in audience. Paik on camera is zooming in and out and seems to be playing with camera's reaction to the auditorium lights. | c. 1975 | 00:04:50 | Black and White | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.27 | Casablance 3, last reel | Non-artwork, possible sample planning. Recording of Casablanca and unknown silent film at (00:13:36). | c. 1975 | 00:33:13 | Black and White | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.237 | Nam June Paik, HAAS Lounge - University of Buffalo, November 16, 1972. "B * (Mis-labeled. Actual footage: Unkown) | Begins with recording of a window showing water and highway, location unknown. (00:11:20) switches to nude woman taking a shower until 00:17:00. Jumps to closeup of a hand putting objects on a table (artist unknown, possible video piece planning). (00:23:00) jumps to recording of fireescape and plants. Warning: nudity | 11/16/1972 | 00:29:37 | Black and White | No | VIEW |
| OR.152 | TV TV Master | Non-artwork possible sample planning. Recording of various television programs discussing film/cinema, edit seems intentional. | c. 1975 | 00:21:22 | Color | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.162 | Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota, Flux Sonata | Performance titled Flux Sonata. Nam June Paik puts a record on a record player and sits in an armchair next to it. (00:07:06) NJP removes the record and throws it on the floor the audience appears to be laughing. Repeats this in various ways to end. | c. 1970 | 00:33:16 | Black and White | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.164 | Fluxus concert I. June Paik and Shigeko Kubota | Performance titled Fluxus Concert I. Begins with unpacking of a piano from it's crate. (00:08:20) George Maciunas is handing out ping pong balls and tennis raquets to the audience, Peter Moore is shooting photos. Audience is asked to throw ping-pong ballls into pianos interior, making sounds. (00:15:11) A woman is placing 2 tall glasses inside the piano and throwing marbles hitting the cords. | c. 1970 | 00:33:21 | Black and White | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.173 | Nam June Paik | Black & white video effects reel, used in parts of "Suite 212" video chapters. | 11/5/1974 | 00:03:46 | Black and White | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.183 | Nam June Channel 5. April 21, Monday | Recording of an episode of Midday Live on channel 5. c.1980. Includes a segment on video art and video synthesizers. (00:18:38) Nam June is interviewed. "You should dominate television." "Television is a miscommunication medium." Shows "Global Groove" video by Nam June Paik. Taking television from low art to high art. | c. 1975 | 00:30:40 | Black and White | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.240 | Art Car by Nam June* (Mis-labeled. Actual footage: Raw footage of car show) | Raw Footage of car show at Tavern on the Green in Central Park. Possibly used in Paik artwork titled Art Car. | c. 1970 | 00:33:06 | Black and White | Yes | VIEW |
SHIGEKO KUBOTA ARTWORKS
| REFERENCE NUMBER | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | YEAR | DURATION | COLOR / B&W | AUDIO | LINK TO REQUEST ACCESS |
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| OR.7 | Shigeko Installation last shot | Kubota Performing in front of 'Duchamps Grave' video sculpture. Location Unknown. Reel 1 of 3. | c. 1980 | 00:06:09 | Color | No | VIEW |
| OR.8 | Shigeko Installation | Kubota performing/dancing nude in front of 'Duchamps Grave' video sculpture. Location Unknown. Reel 3 of 3. | c. 1980 | 00:31:39 | Color | No | Request for Permission Required |
| OR.9 | Shigeko Installation | Kubota Performing/dancing clothed/undressing/nude/fabric in front of 'Duchamps Grave' video sculpture. Location Unknown. Reel 2 of 3. | c. 1980 | 00:33:31 | Color | No | Request for Permission Required |
| OR.10 | Shigeko Installation | Duchamps Grave' exhbit footage, dark lighting. Possibly filmed at Rene Block Gallery. | c. 1980 | 00:26:13 | Color | No | VIEW |
| OR.19 | Kitchen | Unknown artist performance holding spoon in front of multiple CRT screens. Possibly part of Video Fortune Teller by Kubota. | c. 1975 | 00:33:13 | Black and White | No | VIEW |
| OR.21 | Shigeko Hospital Thur. #8, April 29 | Part 8 of Shigeko Kubota Hospital series of 10. Video diary of Kubota in Hospital for surgery. | c. 1980 | 00:34:07 | Black and White | Yes | Request for Permission Required |
| OR.50 | Slow Feedback | Multiple segments of footage sampled for Channel 13 experimental video broadcast series Suite 212. (00:01:08) Footage of the Bronx. (00:04:15) Aerial views of Manhattan are shown from a helicopter. (00:07:26) Recording of people ice skating. (00:16:06) The camera captures a cathedral and people in a nearby park, including close-ups of architectural details. (00:20:14) Sequence shows a horse running, a woman weaving, and sheep running. | c. 1970 | 00:23:21 | Black and White | No | VIEW |
| OR.53 | Paris' Strip | Raw footage recorded by Kubota during tour of Europe. Footage used in Europe On 1/2 " a Day video piece. Includes live striptease footage from a Cabaret in France. | c. 1970 | 00:29:14 | Black and White | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.83 | Shigeko My Father's Last, *Important | Raw footage of Shigeko with Father, watching tv. Unedited, used in My Father video piece. | 12/31/1972 | 00:24:42 | Black and White | Yes | Request for Permission Required |
| OR.90 | Synapse colorized face | Early experimentation with colorizing and editing techniques at Synapse Studio Lab at Syracuse University. Later iterations were used in the Kubota pices titled My Face and Self Portrait. | c. 1970 | 00:30:19 | Color | Request for Permission Required | |
| OR.97 | Net '74 Report Shigeko Kubota | Recording of an episode of The Television Laboratory, WNET 13, 1974. Addressing video art. Notable figures: Miller, Paik, Etra, Vasulka,Tambellini, Hayes, Vanderrbeek, Emschwiller. (00:23:30) Becomes audio only. | 5/27/1905 | 00:33:14 | Color | Partial | VIEW |
| OR.135 | Lesbian Mothers | Documentary film by Rita Moreira and Norma Pontes titled Lesbian Mothers, 1972. Includes street interviews asking people how they feel about lesbian mothers, as well as interviews with women about the experience of being a lesbian mother. Premiered at the New York Woman's Video Festival, likely where she met Kubota. Warning: Nudity. | 1972 | 00:30:28 | Black and White | Yes | Request for Permission Required |
| OR.204 | My Father Original Master, Shigeko Kubota. Black and white, 15 min. | Final edit of My Father by Shigeko Kubota. Explores relationship with her father, and experience of his final days and eventual death. | 1975 | 00:16:58 | Black and White | Yes | Request for Permission Required |
| OR.235 | 318 Picturephone Tape II | Raw footage of two-way video happening titled NY-CA Picturephone, 1979. Includes musical dual perfomance with Paik and blind saxaphonist. Notable figures: Kubota, Al Robbins, Joan Logue, Nam June Paik, Bob Walker. Other fluxus memebers. Reel 2 of 2. | 1979 | 00:22:06 | Black and White | Yes | |
| OR.262 | White forest (in japanese) | Raw footage recorded by Kubota in passenger seat of a moving car, passing through a forest (location unknown) and singing. | 8/2/1976 | 00:33:32 | Color | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.277 | Niagara 2, Watergate | Multiple segments, possibly for sampling. Begins with recording of movie titled Niagara, 1953. (00:24:08) Switches to recorded footage of Nixon Watergate hearings. | c. 1973 | 00:51:49 | |||
| OR.284 | Video Poem, Kitchen | Installation footage of Kubota video sculptures at The Kitchen. Includes footage of artworks titled Video Poem and Duchamps Grave. | 6/6/1975 | 00:33:10 | Black and White | VIEW | |
| OR.322 | Arizona Sky with Rocks in Utah | Raw fooatge recorded in Arizona and Utah, respectively. Loops back and forth between recording of the sky in Arizona, and a cliff in Utah. Samples used in various channels of Kubota video sculpture titled Three Mountains. | c. 1975 | 01:05:15 | Color | No | VIEW |
| OR.338 | My face by Shigeko Kubota. Self-portrait with video poem. Color, no sound | Early edit of Kubota video piece titled Self Portrait. | c. 1970 | 01:01:58 | Color | No | Request for Permission Required |
| OR.346 | Fusion by Shigeko | Multiple segments. Begins with abstracted/colorized sillouette of a women dancing at a Cabaret, possibly in Paris. (00:02:13) The video cuts back and forth between raw footage and colorized edits, now with both men and women dancing in a Cabaret. (00:13:48) Switches to raw footage recorded from inside a car driving toward the arc de triomphe in Paris. (00:16:34) Switches to Alan Ginsberg performance, title unknown. He speaks into a microphone and plays a handheld percussion instrument. (00:20:35) Ginsberg starts singing and playing tabletop accordian. (00:24:12). Warning: Some Nudity | c. 1975 | 00:24:28 | Black and White, some color | Yes | Request for Permission Required |
| OR.345 | Video Wrestler in Japanese style. By Shigeko Kubota | Video artwork by Kubota title Video Wrestlers. Includes recording of Sumo Wrestler event. (00:08:07) Includes portions of Kubota artwork My Face, as well as Kubota singing in the backround, Amore Amore. | c. 1975 | 00:19:11 | Color | Yes | Request for Permission Required |
THREE MOUNTAINS RAW FOOTAGE
| REFERENCE NUMBER | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | YEAR | DURATION | COLOR / B&W | AUDIO | LINK TO REQUEST ACCESS |
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| OR.52 | Grand Cayon North to South. Blue sky, Arizona Landscape. Shigeko. Color. | Raw footage shot while driving at Grand Canyon National Park and unknown locations in Arizona. Used in various landscape video pieces by Kubota. | 8/6/1976 | 00:33:24 | Color | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.54 | Titon Mountains. Bob is driving the car with Shigeko. Color. | Raw footage shot at Grand Teton National Park. Used in various landscape video pieces by Kubota, including 'Three Mountains'. | 8/1/1976 | 00:25:37 | Color | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.56 | Japanese markings, Taos | Artwork content for 'Three Mountains' Tao Sunset colorized. Mountains at sunset. You can hear the wind. | 8/10/1976 | 00:33:23 | Color | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.253 | Grand Canyon | Raw footage landscape shots of the grand canyon. You can hear wind and Shigeko and a man's voice in the background along with tourists. There are closeups and shots from different angles. | c. 1970 | 00:33:19 | Color | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.254 | Midway Geyser Basin, Yellow Hot River | Raw footage of "Old Faithful" geyster at Yellowstone National Park. | Aug-77 | 00:33:20 | Color | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.261 | Washington State/Highway to Chico, Montana. | Raw footage from roadtrip to Montana. Shigeko's voice in the background with a male voice. | c. 1970 | 00:33:20 | Color | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.263 | Zion Park 2 | Raw footage, trip to Zion National Park, Utah | c. 1970 | 00:35:51 | Color | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.264 | Old Faithful | Raw footage taken by Shigeko of Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Used in Three Mountains channel. | c. 1970 | 00:31:23 | Color | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.265 | Mammoth Hot Springs, Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, Pond at Continental Div | Nature shots of hot springs at Yellowstone. Raw footage. Shots of lily pads on water. | c. 1970 | 00:33:21 | Color | Yes | VIEW |
| OR.267 | Red Canyon Utah | Original footage from Why is Arizona so dry. Shigeko's and another man's voice in the backround. | 8/5/1976 | 00:33:35 | Color | Yes | VIEW |
DUCHAMPIANA NUDE DESCENDING STAIRCASE
| REFERENCE NUMBER | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | YEAR | DURATION | COLOR / B&W | AUDIO | LINK TO REQUEST ACCESS |
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NAVAJO SKY
| REFERENCE NUMBER | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | YEAR | DURATION | COLOR / B&W | AUDIO | LINK TO REQUEST ACCESS |
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OTHER ARTISTS
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JOHN CAGE
| REFERENCE NUMBER | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | YEAR | DURATION | COLOR / B&W | AUDIO | LINK TO REQUEST ACCESS |
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VIDEO EXPERIMENTS
| REFERENCE NUMBER | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | YEAR | DURATION | COLOR / B&W | AUDIO | LINK TO REQUEST ACCESS |
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VIDEO IN THE WINDOW
| REFERENCE NUMBER | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | YEAR | DURATION | COLOR / B&W | AUDIO | LINK TO REQUEST ACCESS |
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EVENTS
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RIVER RUN
| REFERENCE NUMBER | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | YEAR | DURATION | COLOR / B&W | AUDIO | LINK TO REQUEST ACCESS |
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DUCHAMP
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