Richard Kostelanetz
- Preambles
- All Along the Edge
- Choice Bits
- Las Vegas Performance
- Book of Kostis
- Contemporary American Literacy
- Modern Polyartistry
- End of Intelligent Writing, reprint
- More On Innovative Music(ian)s
- Autobiogaphies at 50 & 60
- Book-Art & Alternative Publishing
- A Literary Life in America
- Animated Music
- Artists in America
- Arts & Artists in America
- Master Minds, rev. ed.
- The Maturity of American Thought
- Great American Comedians
- Continuing Tradition of the New
- Charles Ives and the American Imagination
- Special Sounds: The Art of Radio in North America
- Great Jewish Cemetery of Berlin
- Sports & Sportsmen
- Elizabeth Streb
- More Crimes of Culture
- The Fall and Rise of the Rockaways
- Home & Away: Travel Essays
- American Composers in Their Own Words
- The Art of Literary Demolition
- Possibilities of Longer Poetry
- Alternative American Autobiographies
- The American Tradition in Poetry
- John Cage's Poetry
- Foster Damon's Uncollected Writings
- Libertarian Tradition: American Anarchist Thought
- E.E. Cummings ReConSidered
- Conceptual Dance: Choreographic Comedies
- An Emma Goldman Reader
- American Composers as Writers
- AnOther Ogden Nash
- Classic Essays on Rock
- New American Radio Plays
- Second Anthology of Merce Criticism
Proposal for a Library/Museum Exhibition of LITERARY VIDEOTAPES
Richard Kostelanetz has produced over a dozen videotapes that differ from other video in that their visual or aural content is predominantly, if not entirely, linguistic. These tapes can be divided into three groups: 1.) early works, including Three Prose Pieces (1975, 20'), Openings & Closings (1975, 56:10), Declaration of Independence (1979, 9:20), and Epiphanies (1980, 31:00), all of which are based upon prose texts of his. A retrospective videotape almost entirely about this work in the context of his SoHo studio, including his spoken commentary, is Video Writing (1987, 53:110). 2.) Recent works whose screen content is exclusively linguistic: Partitions (1986, 27:140), Kinetic Writings (1989, 22'), Video Strings (1989, 29:32), Stringsieben (1989, 12:00, in German), Turfs/Grounds/Lawns (1989, 23:00. (Two 60' tapes in progress, awaiting support sufficient to complete editing, are Video Poems and Video Fictions.) 3.) Recent works whose continuous abstract syntheses are a counterpoint to language-based electro-acoustic music: Invocations (19814, 61), The Gospels Abridged (1988, 62'), Two Sacred Texts (1988, 12'), Two Erotic Videotapes (1988, 56:10). It should be noted that one of the Sacred Texts, Praying to the Lord, is available in eight separate realizations, towards an eight-monitor installation, while five alternative versions of Invocations are also available, each beginning with a language family different from the English on the original: (a) Latin; (b) German; (c) Hebrew-Assyriac; (d) Italian-Yugoslav-Greek; (e) Swedish-Danish. Americas' Game (2000, 60') represents a new departure in having a representational image accompany an audiotape composition less of language as such than a fuller range of sounds, in this case those unique to baseball. These tapes are available on 3/4" U-Matic , 1/2" VHS cassettes, DVDs in the NTSC format, ideally for continuous viewing over a period of time. Those marked * have a hifi stereo soundtrack; those marked ** are best viewed over large-screen projection TV. Possible venues could include libraries as well as museums, as no other American author has worked as long or as often in video. Any institutions seriously wishing to mount this exhibition are advised to contact him. Thank you.