Steve may correct me, but I think he used Slough as the title for the performance in which he peeled off successive layers of goo-lubricated bodysuits while DiBi drummed and I consumed. It was performed live at the Kitchen in support of a Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black show and subsequently filmed at DiBi’s studio on 14th St somewhere around the 80s/90s boundary. Steve had his own antecedents like his youthful film Melt Face, and it wasn’t much of a stretch to tie into my Psychedelic musing on Sloughing which I pursued as a sort of Hermetic approach to The Thing Which Continually Emerges From Itself.
Quagmire of Film (title adapted from Quagmire of Doom, a Marvel Comics Sub-Mariner episode) was the second, and more coherent, of the multimedia events Steve and I produced as Utmost Projections. It had amazing footage Steve shot at the America Museum of Natural History and my narrative and the highest techest effectests we could accomplish in that bygone era. It was more Smithsonian than Sloughesque overall, but the thread was there, including the Snow Shovel segment, which remains the only film I have ever directed, shot in Central Park with Steve as cinematographer and me on shovel.
Besides Mushrooms, an influence worth mentioning here was Duane Elgin’s Continuous Creation theory, published in ReVision, a journal out of Esalen which was then edited by Stan Grof and featured academically ambitious fringe stuff by the likes of Terence McKenna. In the pre-net days it was hard to find that sort of thing and it all seemed to make sense when you did.
Sloughing supposes a Core which Emanates until it reaches a Limit at which point it Dissipates. We like to identify with the Core, but Life takes place at the Dissipate Edge.
70 percent of household dust is human skin.
Alex, ol boy,...yes, right on...I knew this stuff (Slough) mattered in some way.... I always thought "Quagmire" was a major work of its time, worthy of Anthology Film status...Where is it now?...Had that crazy eye shit thing going on, right? Sort of follow up to Bunuel-Dali right? .Yet, as accurate as the Dr.'s observations usually are, I cant help but wonder if he's confusing the thing I did at the Kitchen w/ Parrino & Kevin Jones in '89 with some other occurrence ...
Alex, Steve DiB and I did perform together at The Kitchen, as openers for The Voluptious Horror Of Karen Black. The title of the piece was "Meug" with Steve DiB on Moog (was it Parrino's?) not drums, and Alex on newspapers, Tropicana and Milano's. The three of us performed it again at WEBO, on the Lower East Side. A few months later we "performed" it for posterity, captured on super -8 film by Kevin Jones in Steve DiB's 14th st studio.
Most of the camera original, super-8 Quagmire Of Film footage seems to have disappeared. All I am able to find are part of the first reel, all the super-8 outtakes (cutting room floor stuff) and a 3/4" film to tape transfer of the whole piece. I am bumping some video to dvd next week, I'll include Quagmire in the transfer. I do still have the camera original film Kevin shot.
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Quagmire of Film (title adapted from Quagmire of Doom, a Marvel Comics Sub-Mariner episode) was the second, and more coherent, of the multimedia events Steve and I produced as Utmost Projections. It had amazing footage Steve shot at the America Museum of Natural History and my narrative and the highest techest effectests we could accomplish in that bygone era. It was more Smithsonian than Sloughesque overall, but the thread was there, including the Snow Shovel segment, which remains the only film I have ever directed, shot in Central Park with Steve as cinematographer and me on shovel.
Besides Mushrooms, an influence worth mentioning here was Duane Elgin’s Continuous Creation theory, published in ReVision, a journal out of Esalen which was then edited by Stan Grof and featured academically ambitious fringe stuff by the likes of Terence McKenna. In the pre-net days it was hard to find that sort of thing and it all seemed to make sense when you did.
Sloughing supposes a Core which Emanates until it reaches a Limit at which point it Dissipates. We like to identify with the Core, but Life takes place at the Dissipate Edge.
70 percent of household dust is human skin.
- alex 5-13-2009 2:31 am
Alex, ol boy,...yes, right on...I knew this stuff (Slough) mattered in some way.... I always thought "Quagmire" was a major work of its time, worthy of Anthology Film status...Where is it now?...Had that crazy eye shit thing going on, right? Sort of follow up to Bunuel-Dali right? .Yet, as accurate as the Dr.'s observations usually are, I cant help but wonder if he's confusing the thing I did at the Kitchen w/ Parrino & Kevin Jones in '89 with some other occurrence ...
- Michelle S 5-13-2009 3:31 am [add a comment]
Alex, Steve DiB and I did perform together at The Kitchen, as openers for The Voluptious Horror Of Karen Black. The title of the piece was "Meug" with Steve DiB on Moog (was it Parrino's?) not drums, and Alex on newspapers, Tropicana and Milano's. The three of us performed it again at WEBO, on the Lower East Side. A few months later we "performed" it for posterity, captured on super -8 film by Kevin Jones in Steve DiB's 14th st studio.
Most of the camera original, super-8 Quagmire Of Film footage seems to have disappeared. All I am able to find are part of the first reel, all the super-8 outtakes (cutting room floor stuff) and a 3/4" film to tape transfer of the whole piece. I am bumping some video to dvd next week, I'll include Quagmire in the transfer. I do still have the camera original film Kevin shot.
- steve 5-13-2009 4:57 am [add a comment]
Newspapers,Tropicana and Milanos...!!! What exactly does that sound like?
-sdb
- Michelle S 5-13-2009 4:54 pm [add a comment]
fortunately Alex wasn't miced.
- steve 5-16-2009 12:16 pm [add a comment]