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Videos
Hokey Sapp Does SPEW!
2022Hokey Sapp does SPEW! features Kate Schechter performing her invented media personality Hokey Sapp (a queered-up amalgam of former NPR radio hosts Cokey Roberts and Mara Tapp) interviewing some of the luminaries in attendance at SPEW: The Homographic Convergence, a queer zine convention hosted by Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago in May, 1991. SPEW brought together artists, writers, editors of zines, performers, video-makers, activists, and bands from throughout the US and Canada, and marked the explosion of queercore subcultures through unabashed fashion, outrageous politics, humor, and joy. We asked participants about their thoughts and feelings on the meaning of “queer” as manifest in this zine subculture, in queer theory, and in the intense activism of both ACT UP and Queer Nation. The raw VHS footage, shot in 1991, was edited 31 years later, in 2022. Mary Patten: director, videographer, and editor; Kate Schechter, interviewer.
Added on: August 1, 2024
PANEL (INSTALLATION)
2013PANEL has manifested as a multimedia installation, a series of silkscreened prints, live performances, and a one-channel video. The work is based on a transcript of a discussion on prisons and asylums at the historic “Schizo Culture” conference at Columbia University in 1975. The original panel featured philosopher Michel Foucault, radical psychiatrist R. D. Laing, Insane Liberation Front activist Howie Harp, and revolutionary prisoners’ advocate Judith Clark. The first version of PANEL includes four performance-based video channels, four “life-size” prints – each corresponding to and mirroring one of the video channels – an array of chairs, a large wall drawing, and text. Each vertical video panel / projection is a separate, synched channel of HD video and audio. All words are taken directly from the transcript, but i made no attempt to cast characters based on “realistic” representation. The exhibition also featured a live staging of the event, and a marathon performance reading of texts by poets, activists, artists, and theorists who attended Schizo Culture, or were active in NYC in the 1970s. Please cue to 8:26 (3 min. intro + 5.5 minute excerpt)
Added on: August 1, 2024
ACT UP: the Outtakes (excerpt - please view first 8.5 minutes)
2016Excerpt from a compilation of video clips titled "ACT UP: The Outtakes." The first clip (from beginning to 8:31) was shot at the 1995 Chicago Gay Pride Parade during the decline and eventual disappearance of the ACT UP Chicago chapter. Unable to fully address the host of issues that had led to ACT UP's decline – the escalating numbers of deaths of our friends, lovers, and comrades; our despair at ending the AIDS epidemic as it continued to spread rapidly throughout poor and people of color communities in the U.S. and in the Third World; divisions within the organization around conflicting priorities – the rush for “a cure” over issues of racism, sexism, and homophobia, and a national health care agenda – we went to the Gay Pride march to search for reflections, memories, and insights about these developments from our queer siblings.
Added on: August 1, 2024