[Frameworks] Tony Conrad

Tue Apr 12 09:59:29 UTC 2016

Hi Elizabeth,

Cheers for your nice comment. Lucky you! Thanks for sharing this experience
:)

Best,

2016-04-11 1:31 GMT+02:00 Elizabeth McMahon <elizmcmahon at gmail.com>:

> Your homage is genuinely heartfelt, and speaks so much truth about tONY,
> the man he was for his entire life. Thank you. I was fortunate to have had
> Tony as a professor in Buffalo (as well as
> Paul Sharits) - I knew I was in the presence of real mavericks and
> iconoclasts then, Gerry O'Grady, too, too young for Frampton or the
> Vasulkas unfortunately during their tenures - and I can tell you it was a
> great kick running into Tony when he came to where I cocktail waitressed,
> or just running into to him in downtown Buffalo. A true weirdo!
>
> Best,
> Elizabeth McMahon
>
>
> Elizabeth
>
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Esperanza Collado <
> esperanzacollado1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I posted this little homage on FB this morning, and thought I would share
>> here too.
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>> Dear Tony,
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you for dematerializing art, and particularly for dematerializing
>> film.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for reminding us that cinema is much more (and, in fact, much
>> less) than a series of images.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for giving us a film that can be watched with closed eyes.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for bathing our bodies with intermittent light in the dark
>> theatre.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for demonstrating that the body is not necessarily an obstacle
>> for cinema to reach thought.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for tickling our nervous system.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for revealing the architectures of projection and perception,
>> and for opening up for us new possibilities of exploration in that
>> direction.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for showing us that conceptual art can be full of healthy
>> absurdity.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for making us see colours where there were only black and white
>> frames.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for giving us the longest movies of the history of film, with a
>> duration of 3 years: the “Yellow Movies”.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for showing us that cinema can take multiple forms beyond its
>> standard apparatus.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your great sense of humour and for cooking, baking,
>> electrocuting, etc. film live.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for sharing your work and illuminating our lives.
>>
>>
>> You can never die because you are in all of us.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> With admiration,
>>
>>
>>
>> E.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> PD. As Jeanne Liotta has expressed today on Marie Losier’s wall, “We are
>> so lucky to have been on this Earth all together. RIP TC”
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  *I took the photograph above in Nov. 2009, at a small club in Dublin
>> where I projected *The Flicker*. I am happy this photo is at Greene
>> Naftali Gallery in NY, where many of Tony’s works are.
>>
>>
>> 2016-04-10 17:03 GMT+02:00 Gene Youngblood <atopia at comcast.net>:
>>
>>> I taught summer session in Gerry O’ Grady’s media program at SUNY
>>> Buffalo for two summers, 1974 & 1975, with Tony, Paul Sharits, Hollis
>>> Frampton, the Vasulkas and others.  I saw Tony every day those two summers,
>>> and we talked a lot, at his home and elsewhere. He played violin for me one
>>> day; another day we were driving along what I think was the Niagara River,
>>> which flows northward toward Niagara Falls. My memory is of a wide, deep
>>> and powerful body of water moving very fast. You’d drown if you fell into
>>> it. Tony was talking loud over the noise of his van, on a roll with some
>>> thought vector he was on. Over the years, whenever I thought of Tony, I saw
>>> that image, and I still do: I conflate the contrarian yet exhilarating rush
>>> of that north-flowing mass of water, strangely quiet, with Tony himself.
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Apr 10, 2016, at 12:19 AM, Pip Chodorov <frameworks at re-voir.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I read the article this morning, Hoberman's obit of Tony Conrad.
>>> >
>>> > I knew he was very sick, and would not be getting better, it was
>>> getting hard for him to walk, and the thought of cataloguing and preserving
>>> all the films, tapes, costumes, objects and inventions in his house was
>>> beginning to weigh on his friends.
>>> >
>>> > But now I see his name in the paper, it is final. To remember Tony,
>>> you can listen to his last performance of the Dream Syndicate:
>>> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBi8GeV7IFI
>>> >
>>> > or watch him talk about his yellow movies:
>>> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uh-SF4Z7AI
>>> >
>>> > or read a recent article:
>>> >
>>> http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/22/people-thought-we-were-on-drugs-and-we-were-tony-conrad-the-great-avant-garde-adventurer
>>> >
>>> > or watch Marie Losier's brilliant film portrait:
>>> > https://www.realeyz.tv/en/tony-conrad-dreaminimalist.html
>>> >
>>> > All the ways in which Tony made us think or laugh, usually both, will
>>> live on forever through his work and remembering moments of time spent
>>> together in public or private.
>>> >
>>> > Re-member Tony!
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