Yesterday Dan Pon from the Grunt Gallery sent out a link to the just launched LIVE Biennial of Performance Art: the Early Years archive. Included is Night of Shooting Stars: a Country & Western Jamboree, a November 9, 2001 ANZA Club event devised and hosted by New York-based artist Larry Krone. On the bill with Larry were Rodney Graham, the late Peter Culley, Judy Radul and myself. Chili was cooked and served by Myfanwy Macleod.
The photo up top was taken by long time Grunt Gallery documentarian Merle Addison during Judy and my performance of a song we wrote for the occasion, called "You Don't Know the Things You Make Me Do". I had just returned from a trip to NYC that afternoon, and by the time we took the stage it was well past midnight Eastern Standard Time. The photo below is of the finale, with Larry (far-left), Peter, Judy, Rodney (behind her), me, and just off-stage, curator Reid Shier, whose Contemporary Art Gallery was a co-producer of this event.
Mike! Reid shared this with me- such a great memory & what a fun night! Slight correction, though it's almost impossible to believe: the date was 2001 - 20 years ago!
ReplyDeleteRight! Date corrected. Time too ("Standard" not "Daylight"). Nice hearing from you, Larry. Stay well!
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